THE UNEMPLOYED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 279, 7 September 1935, Page 2

THE UNEMPLOYED

SPECIAL PROBLEM FOR BOARD.

YOUNG MEN WITHOUT CAREERS

(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, September 6

The welfare of the younger class of unemployed men, between the ages of 20 and 25, who have become a special problem, is actively interesting the Unemployment Board, which has embarked upon a comprehensive investigation of the position. Until fairly recently, the efforts of the board were almost fully engaged in administrative problems arising out of the provision of purely relief measures for large numbers of unemployed. Lately, however, the hoard has been taking full advantage of great opportunities not previously available to it of tackling the question of more permanent, and also, what might be termed the secondary effects, of unemployment. Included in the latter category is the problem of those who left school about the time unemployment first became serious, and for whom avenues of employment which they would normally have entered became closed. With these there may be classed for practical purposes those young men who had actually started chosen careers before the depression, but who were displaced subsequently, and have not been reabsorbed.

The Unemployment Board is now conducting a census of these cases as disclosed by the registers.