YOUTH FORGOTTEN

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1931, Page 8

YOUTH FORGOTTEN

GAP IN UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEMES.

GROWING PROBLEM

AUCKLAND, November 4

The problem of finding/ work for unemployed youths for whom no provision has been made under the relief schemes introduced by the Government has been acute in Auckland for some time past, but will be considerably more so when the schools ' dost at the end of the year and throw hundreds more youths on to the already overstocked employment market. Apparently when the Government introduced the relief legislation unemployed youths were overlooked, 'ihose under 'the age of twenty do not pay the unemployment levy and are therefore ineligible to receive unemployment benefits. So. 4a schemes provides work on farm® for those aged eighteen, mm no provision has been made at all for youths younger than that, and there are many of them now idle. NO PROVISION MADE.

Although the Discharged Prisoners Aid Society is primarily concerned with men and youths who have gone wrong, ■it has found it necessary. . owing to the large number of from youths whose omy trouble is that they are out of work to take the matter up. The 'Rev. G. E. Moreton, the secretary of the society, has corresponded at length with the Rt. Hon. .1. G. Coates, Minister in Charge of Unemployment, on the subject, pointing out the real necessity for some action to be taken.

“The Government is fully aware of the difficulty of the problem,” said Mr Moreton. “but has overlooked it. ft Is pathetic that youths cannot be provided fori A gap has been left between the ages when they are the interest of the Child Welfare officers and when they receive relief under the Unemployment Act. No provision has been madd f<yr ’boys leaving school, and there will he a lot at the end of the year, and they are getting into trouble.

DETERIORATING ALL THE'TIME. “It is unfortunate that boys leaving school cannot find work,” he continued. “They are left to their own devices, and they have to find some outlet for their activities. It is often in the wrong direction, and - idleness has led many astray. This klleness is sapping their moral fibre, because when they are hanging round‘-doing nothing they are deteriorating .all the time. The ‘gang spirit’ comes to the top, and they join up with‘ other youths. Perhaps there is a bad’one or’two amongst them, and then there is trouble.”

Mr Moreton -said he had suggested to Mr Coates that ‘unemployed youths should be placed iit the single men’s camps. If, however,' 1 they were ,so placed it would be necessary for a welfare officer to be placed in charge of them. It was essentialto have some organisation to provide instruction and recreation for them. CONTRIBUTING CAUSES.

Many of the youths,' 1 he continued, were willing to go ’on the land, but most farmers would 1 not take them if they could not milk. They were not given a chance to learn, and thus that avenue of employment was closed t° them. Again, many did not have the necessary clothing, and in a great num-ber-of cases all -they owned was what they wore. Their, parents were probably out of employment and were existing on relief work, and certainly ,could Inot provide for them. He thought that the vocational guidance organisation could do a great deal towards helping '’youths „to find work fitted to their training. Another cause which, contributed materially to the general effect was the trades unions, which had brought about the limitation of the number of apprentices. This was a very real problem, and was resulting in a growing army of unskilled labourers. Technical 'Colleges, he considered, corn'd help by extending their course of training so as to keep youths off the streets at night, and teach them some useful trade.

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