Exactly 
This was prior to being used as a correction establishment.
Ros, I am quite sure that we all know that chronologically 1926 occurred before 1928. I think you are again hectoring, perhaps to make out that I have not realised this.
From Andy’s opening post we all learn that Andy has Horace Gordon Cox as born London 30 June 1910, off to Australia 9 January 1926, and
‘he spent some time at the Yanco experimental farm in NSW leaving there about April 1926 – before it became a training farm for delinquent boys.’
Your reply (#11) noted that before it was a training farm for delinquent boys, it had been a training farm for selected boys from Britain to receive 3 months farm training etc. and you mentioned the Dreadnought scheme was a prestigious scheme.
I then (#12) I posted the date that Yanco became a Child Welfare farm (July 1928) to confirm Andy’s info and to note that Horace would have been too old to have been at Yanco Boys Reform home. (July 1928 minus June 1910 = 18 years, 0 months) May I further explain, so even IF Horace had violated any NSW law, he was, at 18 years, too old to be sentenced under any NSW Child Welfare Law. My reply #12 does NOT contradict any information you had posted.
You then (#13) confirmed my post #12 and noted
‘as was stated previously’ HOWEVER, Ros, I cannot find any post on this thread that gives the date (July 1928) or notes that by July 1928 that Horace was 18 years of age and therefore outside of the protection of the Child Welfare Act of 1923 (with amendments this Act operated until 1939). Child is defined there as under eighteen years of age for Part IX. https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/acts/1923-21.pdf You also mentioned at #13 ‘But it was used as a training place for selected boys from Britain….’ And so I replied at #14 that ‘I am well aware of Yanco history and I further noted that you had already noted the selection process for Dreadnought scheme traineeships.
But you still persist and at #15 you continue to press a point as though I have somehow missed the obvious that prior to Yanco being a correction establishment it had been a training farm for a selection of British boys who came for three months farm training, with the expectation of further employment because of the farming skills they would have received from that training, and that such training was NOT provided as a some form of punishment to reform British Boys.
None of my posts on this thread give any person any reason to consider that I did not know that Yanco had been a training farm for lads from Britain prior to it becoming a Boys Reform home in 1928.
Ros, Please do re-read the OP’s opening post. Clearly he had already appreciated that when his father was at Yanco (ie as a 15 year old, from arrival in Australia until April 1926, ) it was not an institution operated under any NSW Child Welfare scheme designed to reform delinquent NSW boys.
Here is a link to NSW State Archives re Yanco
https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/agency/570 where the opening remarks under Administrative History include
In 1928 the Yanco Experimental Farm, controlled by the Department of Agriculture was accepted by the Child Welfare Department as a site for a Training Farm for delinquent boys. On 4 July 1928, in pursuance of provisions of the Child Welfare Act (No. 21, 1923) the farm was proclaimed "an Industrial School for reception, detention and maintenance of children". The farm was known as "Riverina Welfare Farm for Boys, Yanco".
JM
ADD, and of course, before 1928, it was operated by the NSW Dept of Agriculture, and it was not just for boys sent out from Britain.
