SCARCITY OF BOYS
TELEGRAPH MESSENGERS. 'An advertisement by the Telegraph Department, inviting application from "Fifth btandord boys, between 13 and 36 years, as telegraph messengers during the coming session, of Parliament" having been the subject of unfavourable comment at Tuesday's meeting of the Wellington Education Board as reported in yesterday's issue, a Dominion reporter mentioned the matter to Mr. D. Kobertson, secretary for Post and Telegraphs. He replied that members of the board seemed to have misapprehended the meaning of the advertisement. The Deoartmont was calling, not for boys in the Fifth Standard, but for boys who could show a Fifth Standard certificate. In other words, they wanted boys, who, if still at school, ■were being taught in the Sixth Standard. The Department always gavo preference to boys who possessed Sixth Standard certificates, but, such was tho scarcity of boys, that they had great trouble 4n getting any at all.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 5
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150SCARCITY OF BOYS Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 856, 30 June 1910, Page 5
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