FARM-SCHOOL MIGRANTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 14, 9 October 1937, Page 7

FARM-SCHOOL MIGRANTS

"New Zealand is Ideal" AUSTRALIAN'S OPINION "New Zealand is an ideal country for the establishment of a f arai school gimilar to the Fairbridge farm school |n "Western Australia, and the one now ready for occupation at Molong, New Bouth Wales," said Mr. Andrew Eeid, chairman of the committee which sponsored the Molong scheme, during an interview on the Aorangi the other day. He is ,on his way to hasten the arrival pf English boys and girls at the pew school. Mr. Reid told the New Zealand Herald the Fairbridge scheme actually was an offshoot of the EngUsh migration scheme to provide opportunities for orphans and semi-orphans of workingclass people in such areas as Birmingham, Newcastle and Glasgow. The school at Molong, which had been established at a eost of £60,00Q, would house 220 boys and gifls, whpse ages ranged from 10 yepTS npward, train them in all depurtm'ents of farm work and domestic*w°rh, and provide them with p,n objective. They would be taqght tow to produce their own food, buying ind marketing. Although it was primarily a privqte icheme, it was supported by payments \f 3s Qd a week by the New South jVales Goverument for each child, a limilar, sum from the Federal Governpent and 5s from the British Governnent, said Mr. Eeid. The British Gov* irnment had given its fall approval to 1 ;he scheme, which gradually would be ixtended to other Australian States. " L'he idea of taking poor children from ! lepressed districts in England and finding them work and an objective in othe: mrts of the Empire had mueh to comi • nend it. i "It does seem to me that New Zealand could well give serious consideration to such a propOsal here," he cpntinued. "I will go so far as to say 17ew Zealand should have one. Your eountry has many natural advantages jver ours, and the Dominion, like Aus- ■ tralia, is sadly in need of added population. Vancouver has ia X^airbrldge school, and i'rom what I have heard it is progressing well." Mr. Eeid will visit the school at Vancouver on his way over to England. While he is in the Old Country ho will consult the emigration authorities, in an endeavour to have the first batch of ^ children sent to AMtnUi*. m AMA V ' I possiblc, ' ' " xJ

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