MATRIC STANDARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 23, 28 January 1939, Page 13

MATRIC STANDARD.

YOUTH AND INDUSTRY.

POSITION IN OUNEDIN.

QUALIFIED BOYS SCARCE.

Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUXEDIX, this day. There is a general shortage of boys and girls for industrial occupations in Dunedin. Girls, in particular, are required for the elothing trades, and there are other vacancies offering in workrooms. So far as boys are concerned there is a surplus of candidates only for the engineering ,and building trades. For general work in offices there, is a shortage of suitably educated boys, especially of those who have passed their matriculation examination. . Difficulty is also being experienced in obtaining boys for other occupations requiring this examination, instances being surveying and pharmacy. It is noticeable that boys possessing these qualification show a. disinclination to enter the technical side of manufacturing, much preferring to go straight into office work.

The shortage of boys possessing matriculation qualifications may be partly because their services were bespoke during the year as soon as their studies ended. x They were at once absorbed into employment, and there is therefore little free labour in this class. Nearly &11 of last year's shorthand and typewriting trainees have been placed in positions since Christmas.