A LUCKY PROFESSION.
NOT, MANY IDLE
. "Aie many >oun^ accountants uncm- - ployed f" v\as a question put at the annual meeting'of th^ Xew Zealand Society of Accountants to the rctuing pidsfdcnt, Mr. 'G. W. Reid.
"The experience* of the council and individual members is that there is a surprising lack of unemployment among members of the society," leplied Mr. ltcid. "OE course, there.is difficulty, fov some o£ the J'oijhg people1 leaving college Some tune ago we* set up an employment bureau, but it lapsed because it could not get anybody to come along and ask for a iob." ! Mr. W. Appleton remarked that the ■world was calling (or men with executive nbilitv_ and accountancy tiaining. The trouble was to Ret the right men Some of the best of New Zealand's accountants 'Tvere going overseas.* 'His recent ti.ivels In the Northern Hemisphere hdtl convinced 'him that there was a tremendous field for effiupnt accountants in the United States of America, Canada,, and > other countries New Zgalanders who had established themselves successfully in'other countries wore a credit to the profession.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 6
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178A LUCKY PROFESSION. Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 6
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