HOPEFUL OUTLOOK

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3784, 30 July 1932, Page 6

HOPEFUL OUTLOOK

EMPLOYMENT OF YOUTHS HEADMASTER’S SURVEY (Per Press Association). Wellington, July 28. “For the time being the juvenile uenmployinent problem lias ceased to lie very acute with use; I am very glad to say that many of our pupils have been able to secure appointments,” stated Mr. W. A. Armour*, principal of Wellington College, when furnishing a return of those who bad left the college since the beginning of the second term. Of 24 pupils who had left 20 hud entered positions and the other four had transferred to other schools. Mr. Armour said that in addition under the commercial pupil scheme by which certain lirms were co-oper-ating with the schools in giving boys an insight into the various operations of business, over a period of three to six months lie expected to provide for six o” more pupils. He had also Is en able to arrange with a few employers to take boys as supernumeraries for a small weekly wage to cover such items as travelling expense.!. “The prospects are for a gradual improvement in the economic situation. and already a brighter tone is pervading the business world. I am afraid, however, that towards the enl of the year there will he a great rush among hoys for positions, so we are endeavouring now to take what measures are possible to meet the situation in December and January next.”