SUPPLY INADEQUATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 86, 12 April 1941, Page 4

SUPPLY INADEQUATE.

JUVENILES IN INDUSTRY

GROWING LABOUR PROBLEM.

The opinion that the Government and other employers should be acquainted with the fact that, the supply of juvenile luboui for industry i-. inadequate, although employment needs are pro win-; is expressed in a report issued :s)>• the New Zealand \oeational Guidance -Wociat ion. l'igures are quoted to show thai in the next, live years there will be progressive reductions in the number of juveniles in the significant age groups. I hat tho issue of licenses for new industries should bo mad& with greater caution and with due appreciation of tho decrease in juvenile labour ie suggested by the association, which also considers a conference to consider the problem should be convened.

(itiiijr ;i -week la at October a* an exatuple. tin l association sots out tliat there were .">(>00 vaeancios for youth* in various industries, and the position had not improved since. A table had been prepared showing that bv 194-» (here will be 70.000 males aged 1.1 to IS (inclusive) and 99.200 females aged 1-1 t<> 20. compared with 52.100 and 10").>100 respectively last year. The estimates aro based on mortality rates and no allowance lias been made for immigration or emigration.