Word: pinjarra
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...founded British South Africa Co. refused him land, he turned to Australia. There, on a capital of £2,000 supplied mostly by Colonial Club members, the first Fairbridge Farm School was started in 1912. In 1924 when it was firmly established on a 3,200-acre farm near Pinjarra, Kingsley Fairbridge died of malaria...
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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