“DEAD-END” CALLINGS
DEARTH OF TRADESMEN. "I am told to-day ilhat in Wellington there is a dearth of tradesmen,” remarked the Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) in his address at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Technical College on Monday afternoon. "I am told,” he continued, “that there are only three young men learning bricklaying; that very few are learning carpentering; and very few learning plumbing. In Chris’.lchurch the other day I was informed that only tt n young men were taking up the calling of practical painters in the city. It is e; sy to see that, if we go on like this, in a very few years we will have no ilradesmen in New Zealand.” He added that tire reason lay in the met that young men were being attracted to casual labour of an unskilled nature, by the high rates of remuneration at present ruling. Many skilled men had deserted their trades in order to follow these "dead-end” occupations. If bad times came these unskilled occupations would be the first to feel the pinch. Therefore it was a foolish policy on the r art of parents to allow their boys to follow these "dead-end" occupations instead of putting them to some skilled trade.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 152, 23 March 1921, Page 3
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211“DEAD-END” CALLINGS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 152, 23 March 1921, Page 3
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