so f'ar they had not committed-them-selves to a decision. Mr Smith said that they were securing evidence in writing from apprenticeship committees in various centres, and their recommendations would be based on that evidence and not om hearsay.
The boys, M Smith continued, had been born 1 at a time which brought them to a period of depression, and how narrow was the gap! They might live to be 60, 70, or 80, but there was a gap betweeggjfhe ages of 14 and 18 in which they should be trained in some skilled art or craft, and there was no opportunity for them, and if no opportunity was made for them the future of (he boys was going to be damned in many cases in what they were gifted to follow and in what they had been trained to follow. o,
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1932, Page 5
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