MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 180, 1 August 1932, Page 5

MORE HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.

EMPLOYMENT OF YOUTHS. _____ HEADMASTER'S SURVEY. "For the time being, the juvenile unemployment problem has ceased to be very acute with us; I am very glad to *e,y that many of our pupils have been able to secure appointments," stated Mr. W. A. Armour, principal of Wellington College, when furnishing a return of those who had left the college since the beginning of the second term. Of 24 pupils who had left 20 had entered positions and the other four had transferred to other schools. Mr. Armour said that in addition, under the commercial pupil scheme, by which certain firms were co-operating with the schools in giving boys an insight into the various operations of business, over a period of from three to six months, he expected to provide for eix more pupils. He had also been able to arrange with a few employers to take boys as supernumeraries for a small weekly wage to cover euch items as travelling expeneea. "The prospects are for a gradual improvement in the economic situation, and already a brighter tone is pervading the business world," said Mr. Armour. "I am afraid, however, that toward the end of this year there will be a great rush among boye for positions, so we are endeavouring now to take what measures are possible to meet the situation in December and January next."