SCHOOL OF COLONIAL TRAINING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9158, 4 August 1908, Page 4

SCHOOL OF COLONIAL TRAINING.

The founder of that picturesque and highly useful corps, the Legion -of Frontiersmen, gives an interesting account in the London "Daily Express" of the open-air school on the Thames started by a number of frontiersmen to fit young Englishmen for colonial life. Mr Roger Pocock pours scorn on the equipment of the average Englishman for colonial life —"defunct languages, obsolete forms of mathematics, and manly games,

none of which command any definite wages in the colonies." Nor does the training of an English agricultural college, sometimes super-imposed on this ioundation, meet with Mr Pocock's approval. The School of Colonial Training, where instruction is given by men representing every phase of life in the open, consists of a few tents, a ten-acre paddock, and some horses—a miniature ranche. The first stage 3 include lessons in clea-nug stables, cooking meah, and keeping a camp clean. Toen comes instruction in tho treatment of the horse, ths making and the repair of saddlery and harness, road riding, rough riding, rough driving, farriery, 1 carpentry and blacksmithing. In the evening there ' courses on the business of stock-raising, training in observation, and the use of rifle and shot gun.