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Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 April 1918, Page 3

The Minister of Defence has received a cable message intimating that one of the New Zealand hospital ships has reached a port of call "all well." The Minister has also received word of tho arrival at a port of call of a steamer with a number of New Zealand Aviation Cadets on board. The great rush of boys and girls to clerical work was referred to by the Hon. J. A. Hanan, Minister for Education, in a speech at Ashburton last week. The Minister •said that if the drift continued to the same extent as now obtained, it would mean that the country was proceeding headlong in the direction of doing what an educationalist has declared was "inverting the social pyramid and trying to balance it at its apex." Any man who was given to serious thought and had foresight must recognise that if the country's trained industrial workers did not increase in tiyvn and country; if work on the farm, in trades and industrial occupations did not materially increase; if land settlement and primary industries did not greatly expand and production substantially increase, the outlook would not be "bright Tor the many young people taking up clerical and unskilled occupations.