UNEMPLOYED BOYS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 201, 22 May 1931, Page 5

UNEMPLOYED BOYS

Y.M.C.A. Measures Action is being taken by the Young Men’s Christian Association of Wellington to try to assist boys who do not come under the provisions of the Unemployment Act, in finding positions. While at present the directors have but little data on which they can base conclusions, they feel nevertheless that unemployment is more widespread than the community realises. The association has actual experience of families who have two and even three boys or younger men who are unemployed. There are cases in which young men tn their late teens appeal to the association in despair, having followed up without success every clue which may have given promise of even the most transient and uncongenial occupation. The general secretary of the association, Mr. L. J. Greenberg, in the course of a statement on the position, referred to the moral and psychological aspects of the problem. t . In order to open the way for effective action, and, with a view to assisting organisations in securing reliable data on this problem of boy unemployment, the directors have decided to extend the normal Boys’ Work Department of the Y.M.C.A. in the direction of ascertaining, as far as possible, the extent of youth unemployment in Wellington. To this end unemployed boys and youths, up to the age of 20, are requested to call personally at the Y.M.C.A., 150 Willis Street, and furnish the necessary particulars. Consideration will be given to each individual case, but it must be strictly understood that the association gives no promise that employment can be