ONLY BOYS UNDER 16 WANTED
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Dunedin Rectors Commenl on Legislation EMPLOYERS' ERRORS
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DUNEDIN, Thia Day. In his report to the High School* Board, Mr H. P. Kidson, reetor of the Boys' School, stated that one effect of the basic wage legislation had been that a far greater proportion. oj 'boys had left before reaching the age of 17 and any inquiry from employer* for boys was almost always aecom-. panied by tbe Btipulation tbat they should not be over 16. If this attitude persisted it was! clear that the only boys remaining at ecixoOl beyond the age of 16 would be those going for professions, the public service or Such tew occupations as remained ungoverned by awards. •JV1? Kidson concluded: "The Govern-ment-s recent legislation fa, of course, tbe immediate cause of uhia situation ' It must be said that employers, citber through lack of appreciation of what if means or because they are really afraid of adding even a small amount to their costs, are not making the best of it. Moreover. the larger oorporationa and bigger businesses are most rigid in pursuing this policy, which in ihe long run will, I think, be to their own harrn." v
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 81, 22 April 1937, Page 5
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