WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE?
One boy in every four wants., to be an engineer, according to a survey conducted among 755 boys in Standard VI at 28 schools in and near Christchurch by the Vocational Guidance Department of the Young Men's Christian Association (states the "Press"). Clerical work ranked next on the list, with one boy in every nine, and then cabinetmaking and carpentry with one in every 11. A total of 44 boys aimed at entering the Civil Service, 35 at the various branches of aviation, 21 at teaching, and 20 at farming, including poultry-farming and fruit-farming. The least popular occupations, each nominated by only one boy in the 755, were those of tailor, printer, window-dresser, cinematograph operator, confectioner, furrier, chromium plater, botanist, horticulturist, and optician. Of the boys interviewed 157 had made no choice. Those intending to enrol at a postprimary school numbered 608, and of the' others 29 had'positions to go to. '..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 5
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157WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE? Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 70, 24 March 1938, Page 5
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