300 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 
with reference to Boy Scout Migration. Several Whitehead Scholars are now in 
Australia, Canada, 8. Rhodesia, and reports that have been received of these are 
extremely gratifying. 
For further particulars apply to the Boy Scouts Association, 25 Buckingham 
Palace Road, London, 8.W. 1. 
9. Hudson Bay Company. Farming and Fur Trading—The Company, in 
association with the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Cunard Steamship Companies, 
has organised an Overseas Settlement Company which is prepared to find places with 
farmers in Canada for those ready to begin farming at once ; while for those who have 
had little or no farming experience the Company is operating a farm at Ridgmont 
in Bedfordshire known as the Brogborough Park Farm. Young men of 17 years and 
over are ‘tested out’ on the farm under a superintendent who has had nearly 
20 years’ experience in Canada. The course of instruction varies from a minimum 
of four to a maximum of ten weeks. The land and buildings cover about 250 acres. 
The method of using agricultural implements, the general incidence of living and 
working, the character and care of live stock, hours of work, etc., conform as nearly 
as may be with Canadian methods and conditions, the intention being that on arrival 
in Canada the pupil will not find everything entirely strange, nor should the farmer 
with whom he may be placed find it necessary to teach him the most elementary items 
of daily work on a farm. 
An accepted applicant is not called upon to pay anything for his tuition, board, 
or lodging, but he must deposit with the Company before he goes to the farm a 
guarantee that he intends in Canada to proceed to farm work which will be offered him 
by the Winnipeg office of the Company. The deposit amounts to about £30 to cover 
his third-class fare out to Winnipeg, and £5 which is returned to him on arrival at this 
town. 
Opportunities occur for employment in the Fur Trading Department for public 
school boys between the ages of 17 and 20. Approved applicants are sent out to 
Canada on a five-year contract to some chosen post, in order to gain experience in 
the elements of the business. Accepted candidates travel to their destination free 
of cost, and their maintenance allowance is gradually increased from 240 dollars in 
the first year to 504 dollars in the fifth year with board and lodging. 
Promotion is possible up to the higher administrative appointments of the Com- 
pany—District Managers, Accountants, Inspectors, District Staffs, and the highest 
post which the service has to offer, Fur Trade Commissioner. 
(6) AUSTRALIA. 
Owing to the economic difficulties which are now being encountered in the 
Commonwealth all schemes for assisting the settlement there of people from this 
country have been suspended. Until this suspension took effect there were various 
schemes in force in the several States of a kind suitable for secondary school boys. 
For example, in Queensland and Western Australia, the Church of England Council 
for Empire Settlement were carrying out a scheme with the co-operation of the State 
Governments for the agricultural training and settlement of youths with capital of 
not less than £300, on the lines similar to those of the Council’s Canadian project 
referred to above. See also under Boy Scouts Association above. 
The Big Brother Movement.—In Victoria the Big Brother Movement, of which the 
Prince of Wales is Patron, has been doing admirable work in placing carefully chosen 
boys on the land, each boy being under the guardianship of a responsible Australian 
citizen (who was constituted his Big Brother) until he was 21 years of age. Since its 
inception in 1925, the Big Brother Movement has been instrumental in settling over 
1,000 boys, many of them from secondary schools, in the Commonwealth. 
The Queensland Farm Apprenticeship and other schemes offered excellent oppor- 
tunities to boys of the right type whether of secondary or primary education. It is 
hoped that when the present depression in Australia has passed some at least of 
these schemes will be revived. , 
(c) NEW ZEALAND. 
For the past three years, assisted settlement in New Zealand has been proceeding 
on a limited scale, but is at present in abeyance. Below is a description of a scheme 
promoted by the Church of England Council of Empire Settlement. It has been in 
