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Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1932, Page 4

The success achieved in connection with Flock House was the subject of favourable comment at a recent meeting of the New Zealand Sheepownens acknowledgment of debt to British Seamen Fundi. One speaker said there was la good deal of misunderstanding throughout New Zealand about the work of Flock House, and he wished to point out that at Flock House the training for the first eio'ht months was to fit the boys to make a living on the land, not to make farmers of them. An understanding of the handling of stock and of fencing were two of the things taught, and when a hoy understood these thoroughly he was capable of making * living on any farm in the Dominion., It was when lie was indentured to a farmer that he learnt farming. There was a good demand for Flock House boys, for farmers recognised that the training they had received made them capable assistants. The boys and girls .in Flock House were also taught thrift, and it was very pleasing to find that their savings totalled £38,695. Closer settlement of New Zealand was advocated as the country was only one-fourth settled. The Government should institute some scheme, for the siiibdivding of large unsettled blocks of luul, rather tlwn put so much money into single men's camps. Another speaker stressed the fact that the trustees had taken a large body of boys and girls from the of the Old I/uid, transferred them to New Zealand, trained and built them up phvsiciallv, mentally, and 1 spiritually, to "be comp'. '.ent, self-respecting cleanliving voting men and women, and imbued them, with very few exceptions, with a love for country life

and work. From a materialistic point of view alone those young people now owned personal assets, earned and saved, exceeding the whole cost to the fund.