WORK FOR YOUTHS
APPLICATIONS IN AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, January 14. The marked increase m the number of app-ications for work reported by .the Auckland Boys’ Employment Committee is evidence of a new spirit among youths and parents. The experience of this organisation last year wais discouraging. There was clear evidence of widespread resistance against efforts to open up for idle youth a career on the land. The worst coiir sequence wais that boys, at the most critical time of their lives; spent their days in idleness, learning nothing and escaping the discipline of daily woik without which they must face the future at a. serious disadvantage. It i,s nossihlle that the comparative lush of applicants is accounted for by incentive inculcated in hoys who have just left school, but in any case it is a healthful sign in the city. Quite apart from the importance of teaching to youth habits of industry and maintaining their physical fitness, the prospects before the farmeis of to-morrow <iro much more cncoui aging than the facts of to-day would suggest to the average city mind. Under the nost modern methods of dairy farming, for example, the return per acre may treble the average of today, and no youth, with aptitude, for the land, who now learns the business need despair of eventually .possessing a holding even though no financial aid from Iris parentis is in prospect. The idea held bv many parents that a hoy taking a farm job has no future except as a farm worker is absurd. Behind the resistance noticeable last year was the attitude of mind that a hoy, having 1 been given some measuie of education, would he “wasted” in the country, that lie must wait for a chance in the city. There remained, if course, an influence, from the days of prosperity, which encouraged the belief that lives should go to plan. It is to be honed that most people are now closer in touch with realities and that youth will not be frustrated | through parental folly. _
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1933, Page 8
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338WORK FOR YOUTHS Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1933, Page 8
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