RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29942, 2 October 1962, Page 23

RANDOM REMINDER

SINECURE

Vocational guidance is not the exclusive province of ladies and gentlemen armed with phamphlets, graphs and optimism, who dispense good advice during business hours. It is going on in the home all the time. Some children, of course, have their minds made up very quickly. We have a son who at the age of five was like everyone else; he was going to be fireman, or an engine-driver, or a tax-collector. But when he was six he changed his plans. He announced that he proposed to be a retired gentleman. Parents are naturally

anxious to give their children all the help they can in planning the future. We know of a Christchurch man who became deeply concerned about his son who, at an age when he threatened to be the first secondary schoolboy to enrobe a vote, still could not determine what sort of employment to seek. Father recalled that the boy had an interest in model aeroplanes, so suggested the lad should go to Harewood and aee if there was anything going on there which might appeal to him. The boy did ao. Then the father approached the N.A.C. The official

there to whom he spoke asked if any particular line of activity appealed to the boy. His father confessed he did not know. So it was arranged that the boy should be taken on a tour of all N AC. activities. He did the rounds. That evening his father came home from work. His son told him that he had decided what he wanted to do. The man glanced at his wife with a “There you are, if you make an effort any problem can be solved’" sort of look. Then be turned to his son. “And what is it you want to do?" “Watch.”