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232 its quondam waifs and strays with a practical training which ensures them a ready career of usefulness, either at home or in the Colonies. The accommodation at Standon, however, soon became quite inadequate for the ever-multiplying demands upon the Society, and a gift of thirty-six acres of suitable farm land at Walsham, Norfolk, was opportunely made to the Society by Bishop Wilkinson, and although there has been some considerable yet unavoidable delay, the Hall has at last been converted into an Industrial Home for lads to be trained for emigration. However, funds are still most urgently needed to complete the scheme. A Farm Home has also been established at Hedgerley, Slough, chiefly through the generosity of Mrs Stevenson of Hedgerley Park. She lets to the Society an excellent farmhouse and thirty acres of farm land at the nominal rent of five shillings per annum. The Bede Home for boys, at Wakefield, established in the autumn of 1892, is another home where gardening is taught. Other homes for boys are the home at Kingsley Hall, in the Chester Diocese; at Bognor, Bolton, Percy, Bournemouth, Bron Meirion, Cambridge, Chislehurst, Croydon, Dover, Frome, Hanley Castle, Highweek, Leicester, Lincoln, Natland, Reading, Rochdale, Rock Ferry and Seaforth. There are also Cottage Homes for small boys at Almondbury, near Huddersfield, Ashdon, Bowerchalke, Gislingham, Hunstanton,