THE MODERN YOUTH

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3823, 26 July 1928, Page 2

THE MODERN YOUTH

IS HE IMPROVIDENT f “The youth of to-day,” said Mr. J. Cocker, of Eltham, at the annual conference of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union “is more improvident than in any past time in New Zealand. It is not because they are more intemperate, or because they are gamblers, but because there are many more avenues in which to dispose of their surplus cash.” Mr. Cocker mentioned that many youths received wages from the age of 16, and most of them, he understood from "the statistics, got married at 26 years. There was thus an interval of ten years. On one occasion we had discussed with a present Minister of the Crown the possibility of a compulsory saving scheme for that period-, the money to be handed back to the young man on entering wedlock. The Minister had re]Dlied that he would support such a scheme if one could be devised. “What is wanted,” proceeded Mr. <?ocker, “is to inculcate into young men to save money. I am satisfied that quite a number of them go into the Civil Service because they know a pension awaits them when they cease work.”