WORKLESS BOYS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1932, Page 5

WORKLESS BOYS

SERIOUS POSITION

BUSINESS MEN RESPONSIBLE

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON,. May lb

Stating that the commercial community was responsible for the,-extent pf unemployment among the boys in New Zealand at .the present time, Mr W. F. C'iithb<?rtson, speaking, at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce Council, urged the employment! of boys as shorthand writers andi jtypistg^^,

:,Vl have Tel IT for a long time that we as commercial men are responsible for the position as it exists to-day. I am strongly of the opinion that in warehouses, offices and shops far too much female labour ia employed in New Zealand. Girls have a sphere in life that is irightly theirs, but they should not displace boys, who can do the work as well. It has been said that boys are unsatisfactory in certain ckisaeS of office work, but they must To looked to for the future, and thank God, tlie men of to-day have carfiec! on,their buisiness in the past. We canimb send’ ail the boys away to be farmers,. Many of them can become efficient:.at shorthand and typewriting,. Let :the,. girls stay a.t home, and be tno .mothers. The boys are not getting the encouragement due to those,, who, in future, will;,have carry on the business of the go untry. Mr. lE. Rk Render: Give me a girl for . shorthand-typewriting. Mr Cuthbertson: Boys can beat them into a cocked bat. , , The Chairman (Mr J. PearceLuke) said that he had some personal experience during the war of propaganda about the efficiency of women. In his opinion they hadn’t got it.” t ~The committee’s report stated that -in a national scheme to meet the unemployment problem, which the Government had in hand, full attention, it was assumed, would he given to some co-ordination on national lines, that would absorb both adults and young people into useful industry and . reproductive employment.