@booklet {7913, title = {A Co-operative State Farm Scheme: A Means for Providing Remunerative Employment for All Surplus Labour; A Home for the Aged, Infirm, and Needy; Ways and Means for Teaching Trades, or Such Other Technical Education To Our Rising Generation As Will Enable Them To Earn Their Own Maintenance; and Totally Abolishing Poor Rates. In Three Parts}, year = {1894}, month = {1894}, publisher = {Samuel Costall, Government Printer}, address = {Wellington, New Zealand}, abstract = {

The author outlines two schemes. First, he proposes to establish four farms in different parts of the country where new immigrants can be taken to avoid being fleeced and to learn to farm by working for six to twelve months. Second, he proposes that six blocks of 20,000 to 25,000 acres each be set aside for state cooperative farms where able bodied unemployed, orphans from age ten, and former prostitutes will be able to work. The children will learn for two years and then work in \"flower culture\" for two years to pay back their education. At fourteen boys become state apprentices to learn skills; girls at fourteen are taught domestic skills. Includes costs of the scheme.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author}, author = {W. H. Clarke} }