NOT ENOUGH YOUTHS FOR INDUSTRY
“POSITION IS VERY GRAVE” [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, June 22. The Auckland Youth Centre has more applications by employers for well-developed and intelligent boys and girls of 15 and 16 years than it can supply, said Mr N. C. Gribble, secretary of the centre. He described the position in Auckland as similar to that reported in Dunedin, where there are no boys about 16 years available for business houses. “The scarcity of boys and girls for industry is not because employers dismiss workers in their late ’teens because of the rate of wages they then have to pay, and employ younger lads,” continued Mr Gribble. "That aspect of the employment situation has been greatly exaggerated; My experience over a fair number of years in arranging employment for youth leads me to the belief that there are now insufficient toys and girls leaving school in the ordinary course for the normal needs of primary and secondary industries. To my mind, the position is very grave.”
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22435, 23 June 1938, Page 9
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