OCCUPATION CHOICES

Evening Star, Issue 19196, 12 March 1926, Page 12

OCCUPATION CHOICES

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES [Pee United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, March 11. At the end of last year the head masters of the high schools and technical schools throughout the dominion were asked by the Minister of Education, Sir James Parr, to furnish information showing what walks in life were pursued by pupils who loft at the end of the year. The results, which have been tabulated, lorni interesting road■ig. The figures, as quoted by Sir James Parr in the course of his address at the opening of the Assembly Hall at Mount Albert Grammar School, are as follow (they apply to the 5,000 pupils who left high schools last

Commenting upon the figures, the Minister said he would have liked to have seen more than 19 per cent, ol the boys taking up farming. _ There was oiie matter upon wliich they might congratulate themselves, however, and that was the fact that only 1 per cent, of the boys leaving school last year ventured into the legal profession. Even that was quite enough. (Laughter.) People had evidently awakened to the fact that law was grossly overcrowded. In bis own view co mor:' than fiftm rmw lawyers were required in the dominion each year. He was glad that sums were hcn.g t-lmn to revise the examination tests for law .students, and lie expected uscitil things of the special council wliich was to be set up.

year) University training Boys, J'.c. •> Girls. r.c. 0 Teaching profession !) 10 Government servin' 1 Hanking and insurance 4. Legal ]. 1 UiininH'rco D 13 Engineering and surveying Trades and industries ’ Hi i Shops and warehouses 7 0 Farming . ID 1 Other occupations 3 •) Homo « 57 Intormaiion unobtainable 14 3 — Total 100 100