SURPRISING FACTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 89, 10 December 1912, Page 4

SURPRISING FACTS.

Some surprising facts were laid before the meeting of the Dunedin 'Drainage Board on Tuesday, says the ‘Otago Daily Times.’ A few days age the Board advertised for a typist (female) at 30s a week, a cashier (male) at 50s, and a clerk (male) at 50s, and for the position of typist fourteen applications were received, for cashici sixteen, and for clerk twenty-eight. The applicants for .the positions for males included a gentleman who was at one time a bank manager, and several gentlemen who possessed a university education. Others mentioned that they had passed the matriculation examination or the Civil Service examination. “And here,” said Mr. Douglas, “they are to-day begging for a paltry salary of 505.” Mr. Douglas went on to say that employers were today clamouring for apprentices and journeymen, and could not get them. Good wages were offered, but the hands could not be found. He reminded parents of the splendid educational facilities offered to young people in the Technical School in Dunedin, and expressed the hope that more youths would attend that institution and fit themselves for positions more remunerative than those advertised by the Board.