BOY LABOUR FOR FARMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 129, 24 February 1908, Page 9

BOY LABOUR FOR FARMS.

RECRUITING FROM "HOMES." I ' ilnr- ißi-EGEArn—BKoii.l,; coßnciroND]tm.V K i ' . 1 ' Christchurch, ■ February 23. "Tho: Eov/ 'W. ißeady,-pastor;.of' tho: EastBelt Methodist Churohi 1 seen';by- a ■ 'Press! ' reporter- in regard to .the proposal tniade.in Australia to negotiate iinthBarnardo's'j - Mullcr's,. and\QuamerV.-Homes: vrith;! a ."view • : to - , securing - ; ia trial .batch of-, twenty-fiveboys, vsuitnbw for i,- farm '.work;. V Mr! Beady wa3, in his early youth, an'inmate,of Muller V Homoy a Bristol institution Svhich,.. received, only J boys and girls whose; :paronts were both' dead; Tho; boys remained at the. schtol until; they reached ;.tho : ago of: ■K5 years,''■and were apprenticed.to".trades:..At ; that'i,time noiie'of : ,.tho, -tioys .were': sent ■ out •to ''take up agricultural work. v.lt. was, however, 1 , quitbjipossiblo that : changes ; had .been made : and. .that-; lads • were now, being sont out; iMr. •' Ready-had ./no .personal knowledge.;;.of V. the /practice, in-Dr. Bernardo's Home beyond what 'no ' had readVof .-tho success,| attending:<boy, emigration' to> Canada. Tho; custom in' Mul-, 'Jer's-'-Hoiiie. was ,to: send:-boys'; and,.girls;out. ■ to.: Christian i.bomes, ; where: .very:, thorough > in- - ■quiry: had.':beon'.mado::into:..tho 'character Tof the'- receiving,'person, .'.and? tho treatment which/the young- : person -would bos likely, to, receivo.'v . Mr...'/ Ready had uo opiuion to offer as to "tlio possibility of . tho Australian negotiations proving,.successful. , ; .. 1