RUSH FOR WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 24

RUSH FOR WORK.

UNEMPLOYED PROFESSIONAL MEN. FILLING A JUNIOR'S BILLET. The reorganisation of manual labour is certainly one of the greatest problems of the hour, but perhaps the problem of the professional and brain workers will soon be as great a task as any yet to be solved. This was brought very prominently befrre the members of the relief committee of the Hospital Board this week when a selection for an office worker in the relief department had to be made, out of 140 applicants drawn from nearly every professional calling in the city. The situation was a junior one, yet men with degrees applied and were willing if possible to get their feet on the lower rung of the ladder in the hope that it would lead to promotion later on. The man who got the appointment was one with a good record who had been at Gallipoli and later after returning invalided home from there, returned to the firing line and saw three years' war service in France. Many of the disappointed applicants had been out of work for months and some'wlio had not been long in the Dominion had held important positions in the Old Country.