AFTER SCHOOL DAYS

Evening Star, Issue 18589, 21 March 1924, Page 7

AFTER SCHOOL DAYS

WHAT BOYS DO. Y.M.f.'.A. iT.XSfH. An analysis of date, collected by the Young Men's '(.Jmstijui Association, of Dunedin from odo boys leaving primary school shows that of I ho, number 105 we.ut to work, 149 to High School, 68 to the doy Technical High School, and 68 to the night I’cclmical do Liege. Those belonging to ohnroh (bibs mnnheved 26, to the. Y.AIAAA. 26, to the Scouts’ organisation 25, to lodges 16, to clubs not designated 55; while those related to clubs (not sports dubs) numbered 219. Cricket Itad 165 participators, football 269, 'hockey 59, tennis 24, athletics 14, fishing 14, boating 12. golf 7, trapping 9, cycling 5, horses 4, camping 4, boxing 11, shooting 1. Two handled and one wore ohlo to .swim and one hundred and four were unable to do so.

Hobble;-; interested the boys in tbo following ratios : —sio-mps 148, radio 80, pels 46, gardening 55, woodwork 22, reading 13, collecting coins 17, music. 14, pointing and drawing JO, photography 11, collecting eggs and shells 7, astronomy 1, models and engineering 7. Hoys having no interest, in hobbies numbered 67, in spont 6, in hobbies or sport 2, in sport or 'boys’ club o, in hobbies or boys’ chib 25, in hobbies, sport, or boys’ dnb 1. Those desiring to enter a profession auinhered 19, 'those desirous of a commercial. and teaching career 39, those desiring to enter highly skilled trades 129, low' skilled trades 55. One hundred and live, were, undecided. The. purpose of the- analysis was to emphasise (ho need far the continuation of education, it.o illustrate the danger of “ blind alley jobs,” and by ai future “ follow up y ’ to help bays in the right and; productive use of their leisure.