BOYS AND TRADES

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 8

BOYS AND TRADES

OP PRESENT POSITION. PROSPECTS IN FARMING[THE PRESB Special a»nrice.l * AUCKLAND, March 2. ,£ lt looks as if the time may come when, if-a boy wishes'to,, learn a skilled trade, he will first have to qualify for admission to the Borstal Institution," said Mr B. J3. Wright, secretary of the Auckland Employers' Association, in an addws* on "Employment for Boys," Whioh ho delivered at the Auckland Rotary Club'p luncheon.

After stressing that the condition of industry had closed the door to boys wanting to ' enter trades, Wright said prominence must be given 1 to the fact that farming holds out the most promising prospects for boys in the future. - ••

Mr E. G. Outten. S.M., drew attenti6n to a scheme put forward some time ago for the establishment of small farming centres of about 15 acres UJ' the four main centres. These oould be run as training farms in conjtUJOtion with the technical colleges. It was not an expensive scheme ;, but it might have a great influence on the country. The Rotary Clubs could put the matter before the Government with, more weight than one individual. _ "At present it is hard enough to tell men that there is no work said Mr J. A. C. Allum, "but it » harder to tell boys that there are prospects of employment. It wacaadalous that hoys Bhould be denied the right to work m their chosen trades, v The president said the matter _or forming a committee of investigation would be placed before the directors of-the club. *" "