TRAINING FOR THE COLONIES
The project of establishing a college specially tor the preparation of young men for colonial life is miking headway in Scotland The object is to give training in practical farming and in the trades useful fur settlers in a new country, as well as education in the theory and practice o' agriculture and some insight to the sciences hearing upon fanning. Rough building, carpenter’s work, brickmaking, smith’s work, and other handic afts are to be taught as well ns ploughing, stock tending, and all work of a farm. As far as possible the lads will be trained for the particular colony to which they intend to go. The plan is excellent. It is said by seine persons that the only place in which a settler can be trained properly is in the colony where he will settle N > doubt ha most complete his education there, just as every fanner has in reality te learn his business wlun he takes a farm at Homo on his own account. But many parents, ns explained by the correspondent of a coutempora-y, “who do not like to seed their boys over the sea to bo instructed will g’.adly let them learn whar th y can on the other side of the water, and any fanning training is better than none at all. Hitherto young men have been too freely ‘ pitchforked ’ into the colonies with the idea of getting them out of tho way, and thousands have gone out to farm without having tho least idea of howto go to work ; hence the largo proportion of young fellows who have been wrecked and ruined, or returned to tho Old Country as ‘ bad lots ’ Boys of fifteen may bo sent for three years to the training college, and then they will bo none too old to start to the new countries for further instruction. Thus the new project meets a distinct want, and if it should he properly conducted it must succeed ”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1305, 3 August 1886, Page 3
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330TRAINING FOR THE COLONIES Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1305, 3 August 1886, Page 3
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