OUR BOYS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 9

OUR BOYS

TRADE AS A CABEER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SYDNEY, 3rd June. Mr. Justly Bawlings, one of the captains of the retail trade of Sydney, and managing director for the company that has taken over Anthony Hordern and Sons' vast emporium, the largest of its kind in Australia, has been offering, in a Press article over his signature, a little counsel to parents who are wondering what they are going to do with their boys when they leave school and go into long trousers. His strong advice to them, and especially to those who are inclined to look down upon it a little snobbishly as something undignified, is not to despise trade as a career for their hopefuls. As one who has been through the mill, and who is to-day one of Sydney's loading and most influential citizens, he counsels parents to compare the prospects, the attractions, and the possibilities of any sphere of business , life with those offered by the retail trade. While all boys who enter the retail trade will not become merchant princes, Mr. Bawlings * illustrates the prizes that await those who have the attributes of energy, imagination, and perseverance;