HIGHER EDUCATION IN NEW ZEALAND.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 518, 16 November 1912, Page 7

HIGHER EDUCATION IN NEW ZEALAND.

When considering the exceptional advantages offered to the youth of New Zealand respecting educational facilities, one can only wonder how is it that the average school boy is satisfied to allow his to cease at the close of his school days, with the result that, having no special qualifications he eventually drifts into the ever increasing army of clerks, and as times goes on finds it harder and harder to get out of the unenviable groove into which, through lack of foresight on the part of his parents or lack of ambition on his own he has drifted. New Zealand has within recent years made such rapid strides commercially that opportunities for this with ambition are innumerable. Within the last four years there has been established in New Zealand another profession having Government recognition. The New Zealand Society of accountants was established a body corporate under an Act of 1908, whereby the accountancy profession was raised to the same status as that of Law or Medicine, and with the formation of the Accountants' Society, a fresh and lucrative field was opened to the young business man with ambition and industry. There are at the present time hundreds of young men in New Zealand with brains and ability who are nevertheless apparently contented to drift on year by year earning a small wage, forgetting that they Will not always be young men, and losing sight of the fact that the commercial value of their work is very limited, and since requiring no special training or experience their positions can, at any moment be filled by hundreds of others only too eager to take their places, an advertisement in the paper for a clerk at £2 per Week, draws shoals of applications from youths of eighteen up to men of over 40 years of age. A truly lamentable state of affairs. The establishment of Messrs Tiarks and Hayes' schools has for its object the efficient training of students for the following examinations: Accountancy, bookkeepers, diploma, law, professional and LL.B. A booklet recently published by this firm of professional coaches will appeal to both business as well as prospective professional men, a copy of which may be had on application to them, : The thoroughness and efficiency with which past students have been coached, and the success which has come to those who have taken advantage of the opportunities provided by a course of study with Messrs Tiarks and Hayes in the past, speaks volumes for their system of instruction resDondence.