JOBS FOR BOYS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 138, 7 March 1941, Page 6

JOBS FOR BOYS

Five Tinies As Many Posts As Applicants WELLINGTON POSITION “Forty jobs, half of them with excellent prospects, are offered to Wellington boys each week through the Youth Centre, but only a fifth of that number of boys is available to fill them,” said the secretary of the centre, Mr. S. H. Petersen, yesterday. There were vacancies in almost every trade. In factories the demand, compared with the supply of labour, was 10 to one and in clerical occupations, five to one. Almost the only occupations in which the supply equalled the demand were electrical wiring, mechanical engineering and commercial art. The vocational guidance officer, Mr. A A. Kirk, said that the war did not seem to have had an unsettling effect; there was no tendency for boys leaving school to feel that, as they might be going into the army in a year or two, they need not bother to take a long view In planning their careers. On the contrary, most boys seemed to want to get settled, so that they would have a good job to come back t<j after the war. There was an increased demand for, jobs in electrical and motor engineering firms, which might help boys to qualify eventually for the Air Force.