TOO EAGER TO EARN.
The desire of many modern girls to begin earning money as soon as they leave school was deplored by Miss Ethel Hutchings, a well-known headmistress of an English school, when she spoke at the annual prize-giving. In the past, she said, girls chose, of their own free will, useful careers involving specialised training lasting from two to four years. They found in due course useful and remunerative work. But the girls of the present showed a restlessness and impatience, manifesting itself in a desire to be done with school and to be earning immediately, or, after so short a period of training as was almost worthless.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 30 November 1933, Page 11
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110TOO EAGER TO EARN. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 283, 30 November 1933, Page 11
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