AT WORK TOO SOON
A DIFFICULTY WITH GIRLS
(P.A.) i DUNEDIN, This Day. Reporting that last year 20 Dunedin primary school girls went to work before completing a year in Standard VI and that 33 were sent direct to work from Standard V and even lower classes, the vocational guidance officer commented on the tendency of such girls to drift from job to job because they entered positions unequipped or before they were old enough to be fit to receive" the half-yearly increase that the present awards stipulated. The trouble in the latter case was that the girls were top immature to take senior work or assume more responsibility at the end of the period when wages automatically increased.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 6
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119AT WORK TOO SOON Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 6
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