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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 204, 4 September 1901, Page 3

11 What shall wo do with our boys ? ” is a frequent question, and parents give it a groat deal of consideration. If parents might be advised what not to do with them, wo should say, “ Do not make a bank clerk of the poor youngster.” Perhaps, for the outsider, the profession seems to have charms. Thoy seem sprucely-dressed young men, handling fortunes with the ease of long custom, but the public do not consider the very small proportion of it that goes into the young men’s pockets. They have not read the arbitrary clauses insisted on in Now Zealand banks, where bank clorks are reduced to merely badly paid automata, dobarred from participation in the delights of home which their brothers of tho hod or chisel may enjoy.—Free Lance.

A Land Commission in Victoria lately decided that in the Hay district it requires 15,000 to 20,000 acres to support a settler; but, nevertheless, the Government continues to throw open blocks of 400 and 500 acres each for settlement.

Writing of the starting of a new dairy factory, a correspondent of a northern journal remarks:—“The days of ‘taking it out in pumpkins ’ are passing out quick and lively. We shall live in hopes oi being able to shake hands with ourselves."