Alien Boys Resent Pay
LONDON. Alien children, working from dawu to dusk to help Britain grow more food, take offence if they are offered money tor what they are doing. That is the spirit of Polish and Gcrjin boy refugees brought to England V/ the Kail Baldwin Fund. They are giving their help to English farmers, and look on the work in the fields us their opportunity to serve the country which gave them haven. Many of them are so earnest about it that they almost resent any farmer’s attempt even to give them pocketmoney. Alogether, ISO boys and girls aged be tween 14 and 10, are housed in Gwyrch Castle, lent by the Earl of Dundonald, at Abergele, North Wales. 1 here they live with 40 grown-ups who accompanied them on their flight. As boys work in the fields, girls are busy in the farmhouses. Some of the boys work on the huge, over-grown estate which surrounds the castle, cutting up trees and bushes lo make firewood to last them through the winter. The women are putting in order the huge rooms and passages of their new home after its 20 years of disuse.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 6
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195Alien Boys Resent Pay Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 6
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