FARM TRAINING
SCHEME TO PROVIDE FARM WORK FOR YOUTHS MINISTER'S STATEMENT WELLINGTON, Saturday. Details of an unemployment scheme for the training of youths between the ages of 16 and 20 in farm work was announced by the Minister of Labour, the Hon S. G. Smith, this afternoon. The Minister said that in the meantime applicatiins will be limted to 100 and that the perod will be of one year. Youths will be placed on suitable selected stations, where the Unemployment Board can be satisfied that there will te ample opportunity to obtain a general knowledge of farm work. It is to be clearly understood that they will not be going on the work as ordinary farm labour, and their presenco will liot be a sufficient reason for shortening the number of harids. The general training boys will undertake every kind of farm work carried on on a station. A suitable station for the purpxose was one where. two or 'more boys could be trained at the same time. Mr Smith stressed the f act that the limiting of the number to 100 might be interpreted as too small, even for a beginning, but the board had been guided by fche developmental work in progress to ensure that after training there would be a chance of the boys finding permanent employment in farm work.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 13, 7 September 1931, Page 3
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