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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 5

A well-known. , and leading Palmerston business man, when-'talking business men,-; saidj .with: some disgust:— "i'ou know, there■ am,no;good.office boys nowadays.; Imean nqrvy little chaps,' who will.como for'a fow :- sh'ilb'ngs'a week, and make thomsolvcs part of the business';: You might pi almost say Mero , aren't any office boys nowadays. If ,ypu advertise ■ for one, you get a whole flock of hulking eighteen-year-olds ■ with 'high..,collars; ' wlio think they're .worth a man's salary, when they aren't worth their.salt. , ','. They aro too old to bo ofiico boys, and too- young and callow to bo anything 0150... The schopl; system is to . blamo for this, "u'l'horo aro. too niany secondary schools, and they, aro.; turning out regiments of incompetents. A .common school education without:" frills is all a boy needs, to succeed in" com'mereial life.- He ought-to go into business at 14to fit himself for evon. a clerkship : at IS, and -yet is encouragod—no matter how poor ho is— to spend thoso.four years in: school, acquiring a tastoJor neckties arid fancy shirts. Hhat good is ho whenho goes into a business And yet ho thinks ho can walk right: into a clerkship,? if, indeed! ho is as modest as that, and, doesnft ; want to bo a manager I"—"Manawatu Standard." Return twenty HliilliW Vtt ho for evert sovereign invested, BECAUSE ITS VAIttE IS PUKE GOLD, and beoause it is in general d<v inand. Tho ALL-BRITISH' "STUART" cat bo deppnd«d upnn as regards RELIABILITY nnd orery dob . ! rir. PerfocHon. Inspection of new modu.a' uniini: Trial run erranitcd INGLIS BKOS., WELUNGTON. SOLE Nh™v ZEALAND AQJ3NTS. Qaragoi Harris Sheet P.O. Box CB. Telephones, 1019 und 2i41, Ofe "S,C.A.T."CABS. Wo have recently baon appointed New Zμ. land Agonts for the ITALIAN-BTJILT "S.C.A.T." CABS. ThD Bamplo Car has been disposed of, 1 und. is givlne BNTIKV SATISFACTION to its owner. FurWr B too k , arriviuE °t an e Q"y dat«, and those in Rflamii of" lU3ALLT tfIGH-CUSS AIOTOR CAj{ would do well to INSPECT THE "SCAT" BEVOUE PUECSASING ELSEWHERE n LINGTON, SOLE N.Z, AGENTS. '■ Po £ 08. Telephones 2«1, 1019.' '; .■■ The ■> "Canterbury r rhnW i, . sreswciiw ft pUMle'oort;3»tltloa-. fiiiot w. Tin <