Word: fairbridgians
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Since 1912, 1,000 British youngsters from Poor Law institutions have been sent to Pinjarra, only six returned as failures. For five years "Fairbridgians" are given a simple education, supplemented, for the boys, by husbandry, milking, horseshoeing, boxing. At the age of 14 or 15 they are hired out to farm families as apprentices, half of each Fairbridgian's wages being set aside so that at 21 he will have £200. Frowned on as an expensive form of emigration by the British Treasury, the School is a favorite charity of the Prince of Wales; Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; Malcolm...
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