6 AUGUST 1932, Page 12

The children live in houses, each presided over by a

matron. The home and school is part of a farm flourishing in a rich and very lovely country. Up to the age of fourteen the children remain schoolchildren, taught as other schoolchildren are taught, but always with emphasis on the rural bias. When this term of pupillage is over, they enjoy two more years within the establishment, the boys definitely training on the farm, which is a very good farm, and the girls, who are in about equal number, enjoying a course of practical domestic economy. At sixteen th :3, go out to their proper work on farms and in houses. They are already "subdued to that they work in " : they are little Australians imbued, as they must be, with the charm of the lines in which their life is set.