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they have gained sufficient experience of farming. The lads must be between 
18 and 24 years of age, and are placed with farmers selected by the Church 
Committee, where they will learn the work for such a period as the Committee 
consider necessary. This would be for at least 14 years, and the farmer will 
send reports to the Committee as to the young man’s progress from time to 
time. He would receive the current rate of wages for an unskilled worker, a 
wage which will increase as his value as a worker increases. Half his wages will 
be banked for him while under 21, or longer if desired. 
As soon as the young men are considered to be capable of starting on their 
own account the Committee will inform the parents that they are ready to make 
use of the capital, and will definitely advise and arrange for the settlers to lay it 
out to the best advantage. 
IV.—FinancraL HELP. 
1. Government Loans for purchase and equipment of farms in Canada: 
Loans up to the value of £500 are obtainable from the British and Canadian 
Governments under certain conditions. (See page 297.) 
Full particulars can be obtained from the Oversea Settlement Department, 
Caxton House, Tothill Street, S.W. 1. 
2. Agricultural Credits for Farmers : 
The Canadian Farm Loan Board is empowered to make loans to qualified farmers 
up to a maximum of 
50 per cent. of the value of agricultural lands, and 
20 per cent. of the value of the permanent insured improvements thereon, 
such as buildings, 
repayable by equal annual or six-monthly instalments over a period of 36 years. 
Particulars can be obtained from the Oversea Settlement Department. 
APPENDIX III. 
TYPES OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Memorandum by Sir Ricnarp GREGORY. 
In previous reports of this Committee particulars have been given of some schools 
and courses specially adapted for training for life overseas. During the meeting of 
the British Association in South Africa in 1929 members of the Committee and 
other members of the Association were frequently asked where information could 
be obtained as to various types of secondary schools at home to which residents 
abroad might send their children. It is obviously impossible for this Committee to 
attempt to make a selected list of such schools where particular attention is given 
to practical science or outdoor training.’ A useful purpose may be served, however, 
by a statement of the various types of secondary schools, with references to volumes 
from which details may be obtained concerning them. It is believed that the 
subjoined memorandum will be found of service not only abroad but also at home. 
According to the definition of the Board of Education a secondary school must 
provide a progressive course of general education of a kind and amount suited to an 
age range of at least from 12 to 17 years. Within these limits are to be found a 
number of types of school, differing from each other in various respects but not so 
clearly differentiated from each other that it is always possible to be certain of the 
type to which any individual school should be allotted. 
The first important dividing line is between those schools which receive financial 
assistance from the State and those which do not receive such assistance. Schools 
of both kinds are to be found in the list of secondary schools which are recognised 
by the Board of Education as efficient (List 60). This list, including both boys’ and 
girls’ schools, was first published in 1908 for the Board’s own use, but schools soon 
began to discover the advantages to be acquired from the hall-mark which it gave. 
More and more of the great endowed schools took steps to be included in the list, 
and it now includes also a large proportion of the reputable private schools of the 
country. Inclusion implies no loss of autonomy, the only condition being that the © 
school must have received a favourable report from the Board’s inspectors. On the 
8 The curricula for several such schools are described in the Reports of the British 
Association Committee on Educational Training for Overseas Life, 1925 and 1929. 
