BOYS AND GIRLS IN FACTORIES
« Labour Shortage Partly Blamed Dominion Special Service DUNEDIN, June 30. /‘There is a distressing number of boys and girls of minimum legal age going to work in factories,” said Mr. T. Gonly, vocational guidance officer, when he was asked to comment on a suggestion that juveniles were going to work in factories at present at a much younger age than was formerly the case. Admittedly there was an acute shortage of labour in the factories, he said, and though employers would probably prefer girls.older than between. 13 and 14, they were so desperately short that they hard no choice but to take whatever they could get. One’ aspect of the problem which was distressing, Mr. Conly added, was that boys going from one factory to another carried their time with them, unless they were going to begin apprenticeship in another trade. The cumulative effect of this, after a lad had been in one or two stop-gap jobs, was thart he was difficult to place, and became a ready-made problem on the labour market.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 234, 1 July 1939, Page 12
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