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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 243, 18 October 1921, Page 5

Mr. Ernest P. Liddell, of Waipawa, who served his apprenticeship with the local branch ot Hallenstein Bros., and was lately temporiry manager of the Hawera branch, has been appointed permanent manager of the firm’s branch at Nelson. 1 ‘ Ono of the greatest defects of our high school system is that 85 per cent of the boys when leaving school have received nd training that fits them to take up any definite occupation/' remarked the chairman of the Auckland Education Board, Mr E. C. Banks, in the course of a discussion upon the Technical College annual report. “Only about 10 or 15 per cent enter the learned professions. The other 85 per cent come out of the high schools at the age of about 18 without the slightest idea as to what work they wish to take up, and go into offices and become clerks or enter some ‘blind-alley’ occupation. The worst of it is that they come to look down on the man who takes oft his coat and does manual work. Some parents of these children—particularly the mothers—think their sons should not do manual work, while at the age of 18 they are often too old to take up other occupations."