CAREERS AFTER SCHOOL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 65, 14 February 1929, Page 6

CAREERS AFTER SCHOOL.

INQUIRY RECOMMENDED.

RESOLUTION OF COMMITTEE

* WANGANUI, Feb. 13. At the request of the Department of Labour a committee was last week set up ii| Wanganui to discuss the problem of employment for boys and girls leaving school. This committee later passed the following resolution: “That this (peering recommends to the Government the advisability of setting up a commission of inquiry in order to ascertain the best means of dealing with the employment of our. young people who are annually leaving our schools and seeking employment. Further, that the attention of the Government he called to the desirability of encouraging the subdivision and settlement, of land nnd more particularly by opening access to land for young people who have been trained in institutions similar to Flock House, such trailing farms to bo established either bv the Gf" - ernmpnt or by private initiative; to investigate the means of establishing intensive forms of farming activities which require smaller sections and moreslabour than in the forms of farming as now carried on in New Zealand: to investigate the possibility of encouraging the growth of secondary industries by direct encouragement as distinct from further customs protection ; that the Government be requested to investigate the ‘bottlenecks’ which oecurj in certain avenues of employment, for instance the teaching profession. That the attention of the Government be called to the work carried on by Government departments and local .bodies which employ adults and offer jio opportunity to young people.”