Any open-minded visitor to Flock House learns with profound surprise that more sons of New Zealand's returned soldiers have not seized the opportunity of a practical training course to qualify them for successful life on the land. Here is a well-managed institution—really a homely place in beautiful country by the Rangitikei River, about thirty miles by good roads from Palmerston North—which offers free farm-training for fifty lads, but the response to the generous call of the Board of Trustees has fallen far below expectations.