The Cadet Swindle.
The Napier News calls attention to the " Cadet Swindle" which it says has been played very profitably for some years past by a certain class of sheep farmers in the Colony. Under a plea of teaching a youth sheep farming, these worthies get a number of young fellows out from Homo, exacting very heavy premiums from their parents. When tho lads get out here they find they have to go to work like an ordinary laborer, and are absolutely taught not a bit more than any old roustabout could teach them in a week, Hard work will do them good, no doubt, but for the learner to pay 1100 a year for the privilege of (lagging his master's sheep, or cleaning out his pig-sties, is rubbish. The royal road to learn farming is to begin at the beginning, and to work as a workman, and not to fool about as a much-despised cadet. If a young fellow comes out and does work, that work is surely worth paying for.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2862, 2 April 1888, Page 3
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172The Cadet Swindle. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2862, 2 April 1888, Page 3
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