SETTLING ON LAND
FACILITIES NEEDED FOR TRAINING OF BOYS SCHOOL SITES SUGGESTED Placing boys in positions where .they could b© properly trained after leafing school, with the view to assuming proprietorship of farms later, is a problem which faces the New Zealand Land Settlement and Development League. It was discussed at a me**-" ing of the league held 3*esterday. According to Mr. W. J. Holdswortiu bo3s entering professions could trained at universities, but there vaS no adequate training institute for b°> s going on the land. When the Auc ' land Mental Hospital was removed Kingseat the old site at Avon might be used as a training school centre. . _s v# “The aim of the league is to ® t. boys a taste and not a bias ,tL lp cultural work.” said Mr. X. G. Grib l The now disused military camp sit Hopuhopu might be used for preli r!l? er e ary training purposes and from tn the boys could be drafted into * cadet branch of the league's propo group settlement scheme. viand It was stated that the Auckiana Chamber of Commerce and the land Rotary Club would assist league’s land proposals.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1076, 13 September 1930, Page 16
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191SETTLING ON LAND Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1076, 13 September 1930, Page 16
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