THE LITTLE BIT EXTRA

Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 11

THE LITTLE BIT EXTRA

WHAT COUNTS IN THE JOB [Special io the ' Stab.’] CHRISTCHURCH, December 21. “ Wc are turning out thousands ot equally educated men and women, and the market for the average is getting a, little overstocked,” said the Mayor of Christchurch (the Rev. J. K. Archer), at a prizegiving ceremony. He said ho wished to stress the necessity of always doing the little extra, for there always seemed to bs room at the top for those who did just something more than was required of the average. Ho instanced a case that came under his notice of an official at a high salary which it had been necessary to advertise twice in an attempt to find a suitable person to fill it. The first time there were thirty-five applicants, and the second time forty; yet, although they had all passed the necessary examination to qualify, not one of the applicants was suitable for the position. Had it been a position at £3 a week be supposed they would have had three hundred applicants, and they would all have been able to till the position. “1 am a parson, but 1 am not a wowser,” said the Mayor. “I like to see sport, but 1 would just like to point out that tennis or any other sport is the recreation of life, and not the vocation.”