EFFORT FOR BOYS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 68, 13 December 1932, Page 10

EFFORT FOR BOYS

Progress of Campaign Applications from businesses and shops for suitable boys are still coming along steadily, but not fast enough, according to Mr. R. P. Staples, organiser for the Boy Employment Committee. Mr. Staples told “The Dominion” yesterday that on Friday last the committee’s canvassers secured the greatest number of applications for any one day since the campaign opened two weeks ago, pushing the total up to 140. Daily the committee are advised that business people are still waiting, expecting to be called upon, but as the workers are so few and the area so 1 large to cover, it would facilitate the placing of boys into positions, if people who can find a job for a boy would immediately ring up the Boys’ Unemployed Bureau in the Y.M.C.A. offices. Several of the retailers’ associations are supporting the movement in a practical way. Already some appropriate window displays are being made in the city by shopkeepers, who are interested in the effort to provide work and to secure jobs for boys. New Zealand industries and New Zealand-made goods are being well featured.

A special youth campaign city attraction for the next three days is the “Name Finding Competition,” which created great interest in Sydney. This competition commences to-day, and continues until Thursday, in ’ Willis, Manners, Victoria and Cuba Courtenay Place and Lambton Quay’ ever 100 shops participating. This morning these shops will display in their windows a pink poster, showing a boy’s face encircled by “the buyer is the real employer,” and indicating the number of names exhibited in the shops, which are taken at random from the electors’ roll of people living in suburbs and city. Over 200 fresh names will appear in various shops each day.

To give publicity to the bov employment campaign, the idea is 'that free goods are given by the shopkeepers when a person finds his or her name on ticket attached to goods in the shop. Keen-eyed customers will thus secure free prizes without any entrance fee whatsoever.

In the event of a customer discerning his or her name upon any article that day (next day will be too late), Ise or she may claim the article free, and it will be delivered to the residence.