PROBLEM SOLVED

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31380, 27 May 1967, Page 17

PROBLEM SOLVED

Part-Aborigine Obtains Job (N.t. frm Attn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, May 26. Vincent Law, aged 18, the P*rt-Aborigine whom some companies would not employ, was caught almost unawares in Brisbane yesterday by the controversy—because he had solved the problem himself. When Ms old school in Melbourne, Carey Grammar School, had failed he succeeded. In Brisbane on Monday, he was interviewed for an insurance company career, was accepted, and will soon start as a claims clerk in Melbourne. The controversy arose when two Carey School officials—the chaplain and deputy headmaster, wrote to a Melbourne newspaper. They said Vincent had obtained his leaving certificate last year, with passes in five subjects, after spending three years at the school on a scholarship provided by boys of the school for a boy of aboriginal descent. They said in their letter that because Vincent’s inclinations and gifts lay in the direction of a commercial career, the school had approached three large buainess organisations but had not been successful in finding employment for the boy.