BOY FARMERS.
PLAN TO INCREASE KNOWLEDGE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, March 26. A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph interestingly suggests the formation of a League of Boy Farmers, on the lines o-f the Boy Scouts, as a means of imparting agricultural interest and knowledge in prospective juvenile emigrants to the Dominions. Mr. Plant, secretary of the Overseas Committee, comments that provision for suitable Training is the keynote to the whole problem of Empire settlement. Nearly half a million boys and girls leave British schools yearly, searching for occupation. Sir Robert Baden-Powell commends the scheme. The danger is that, unless the interest of boys is really aroused and a taste for .farming formed, they drift to the city,
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1922, Page 8
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117BOY FARMERS. Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1922, Page 8
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