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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 152, 24 March 1938, Page 12

One boy in every four wants to be an engineer, according to a survey conducted among 755 boys in Standard VI at 28 schools in and near Christchurch by the Vocational Guidance Department of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Clerical work ranked next on the list, with one boy in every nine, and then cabinet-making and carpentery with one in every 11. A total of 44 boys aimed at entering the Civil Service, 35 at the various branches of aviation, 21 at teaching, and 20 at farming, including poultry-farming and fruit-farming. The least popular occupations, each nominated by only one boy in the 755, were those of tailor, printer, window-dresser, cinematograph operator, confectioner, furrier, chromium plater, botanist, horticulturist, and optician. Of the boys Interviewed. 157 had made no choice. Those intending to enrol at a post-primary school numbered 60S, and of the others 29 had positions to which to co.