UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 273, 2 November 1932, Page 4

UNEMPLOYED YOUTHS

THE WORK IN NAPIER. MESSENGER SERVICE PROPOSED. Napier business men ere beginning to find and take advantage of the Napier Youth Unemployment Committee’s bureau as a place from where they ere able to obtain boys at short notice to carry out various odd jobs or even for permanent positions. The use of the bureau for this purpose is not so far very widely known, but steps are being taken by the committee shortly to suable it to become better advertised. , Evon as little known as it is at present the secretary, Mr C. O. Mason, who is always in attendance, receives quite a number of requests from business men for the use of boys who are immediately available to carry out such small duties as washing bottles in chemists’ shops or assisting in the delivery of groceries. An employer has only to telephone the bureau to immediately secure the services of a suitable boy to carry out any small duty that might be offering. It is tlio intention of the committee to organise anefficient messenger service and to make it known to the business men of tho town who are likely to require a boy to run an errand. The boys will always be in attendance and anyone requiring an errand to be run will have only to telephone to the bureau giving diresturns.

A number of employers of labour both in the towns and in the country have secured suitable boys through tho bureau to fill permanent positions ami ia practically every instance both the employer and the boy are satisfied. When a “Tribune” reporter happened to bo in Mr Mason’s office yesterday afternoon the postman entered with the following letter, which Mr Mason said was typical of mqny he had received, from the mother of one of the boys who had recently been placed on a farm:—"Just a line thanking you for your kindness to our dear ten for getting him into a position. We

appreciate what you have done. I had a letter from my son last week and ho tells us how good you are to him. No doubt we miss him, but he likes the position he is in (farm life) and we agree to him stopping there. It will make him strong and healthy and that’s what we would like to see."