CHARACTER ANALYSES

Evening Star, Issue 20634, 6 November 1930, Page 8

CHARACTER ANALYSES

ADDRESS BY VOCATIONAL OFFICER Tile Jubilee- Hall was well filled last night, when Mr Mark Rolls, vocational officer, delivered an address on ‘ Character Analysis.’ Mr Rolls said that the bottom of the idea of vocational guidance had to bo started with the child. Ho referred to a chart being issued in his school days so that a child would bo suited to the vocation it was called upon to fill. He then proceeded to give a largo number of illustrations of how people had adopted a calling for which they were nob suited, and had made a change that had proved quite successful, and said that what was required was to select the right typo of person for the right typo of work. No ono would select a bulldog to chase a hare, and why should not the same analysis be applied to individual persons? Amongst the illustrations given were one of a young woman who had made a change from dressmaking because sho did not like working under the control of others, to gardening, and after six years was doing vyell in Christchurch. Another illustration was where a young man in a warehouse who was made to be a seaman now held a second mate’s certificate, and would in time make a very competent captain. Another man who was not satisfied with his occupation had become a first-class reporter. The only one suitable occupation for another man had been that of an analytical chemist.' Continuing, he said it was quite possible to analyse boys and girls and place them in their right niche. Mr Rolls proceeded to refer to the colour of a person’s hair, and said that a man who had red hair would he accepted in the Now Zealand Air Force, and would ho a great success. There was the case of ono boy, and the only thing to do with him was to make him a lawyer, and there was no doubt that ho would ho a very successful ono. After giving other illustrations the speaker said that those who were put into their right niche lived happily and were contented. If wo understood human nature wo were all the better oft’ for it. Latent talents only wanted development. There wore three distinct types of character. The one was the mental type which should bo put to mental work. Then there was the square typo, which was suitable for heavy work, and lastly the vitality type, and each had something of the other typos in him. He went on to deal with the characteristics of the hands, feet, knees, hips, and shoulders and what they indicated. He also referred to the features and the shape of the head as indicating character. At the conclusion some members of the audience accepted Mr Rolls’s invitation to step upon the stage for the purposes of analysis.