FEW OPPORTUNITIES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 6

FEW OPPORTUNITIES

' ENGINEERING PROFESSION ' Tho opinion that engineering, whether electrical or, general, was the worst possible profession to which to put a >boy in this country was. expressed by Mr. T. M.Wilford (Hutt) in tho House ofßeproßentaWves.yesterday.. ' , This profession, said Mr. Wilford, was overcrowded, there was no scope for it, anfl there was fio money to bo gained in it. : AVhen he was Homo recently jie found that the profession was glutted., and the opportunities for employment of young men with high credentials in electrical and general engineering were practically nil, The salary ies that were p^iid in tho positions available would astonish New Zealand. He did not think there were many §ueh possibilities here. Mr, E, J. Howard (Christelmreh South) hoped that Mr. "Wilford would not be taken too Beriously in what he had said. Jf a high-class engineer was Wanted here ho yvas imported. The Prime Minister: "Not now." Mr. Howard aaid that with tho completion of the hydro-electric sehomes there would be opportunities for cngineora and the country must' not bo allowed to run short of trained men. Mr. Coates: "Out of every hundroc] electrical engineers trained in New Zealand thirty go abroad." Mr. Howard: "That is only a tribute to our training. You find that all over Australia,''