FLOCK HOUSE
POOR RESPONSE TO NEW-'.-'. •r- ---. SCHEME! • * * * V . 'A/.:. Y, V: ' ,: '■ V CHRISTCHURCH, August 11. The new Flock. House scheme ior ‘the training in farm work of sons <if , , New Zealand ex-servicemen has! met with a poor response, According a report furbished by Mr E. F. ;Willcox . at the meeting of the*executive of the Canterbury Patriotic' Tund yesterday"v; afternoon. He saidf that some of- the 1 boys had been held back owingV'to fin- ; ancial -difficulties. '•-'; • ,A .< /f 1 ’ Mr Willcox said that on. July 13 only about twenty boys were at Flock House under the hew scheme. Eince that date, however, the number) had , ::: almost doubled. There . were some vacancies. South Canterbury had exceeded its quota by three, Havhad three boys available, Mid-Canter-bury one, and North Canterbury, eix, making a tota Jlof ten from Ca-nterbury The funds available, to the local com- - uiit’tee would permit of, only one more boy being'' sent. The Auckland Patri-: t otic Fund had fully financed twentyeight boys from that province.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1932, Page 4
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