EMPLOYMENT FOR BOYS

Northern Advocate, 14 March 1929, Page 6

EMPLOYMENT FOR BOYS

FARMERS APPEALED TO. /

(Per Press Association. —Copyright.) , WELLINGTON, This Day. The Minister of Labour, the Hon, W. A. Veiteh is circularising the farmers through the Farmers’ Unions throughout the Dominion with regard to the employment of boys leaving school. 11(3 mentions that the employers in the towns are doing their bit through apprenticeships and as other occupations depend largely on the exports of farm produce, for which the market may be regarded as unlimited, he asks farmers to follow suit.

Arrangements have been made by which the New Zealand Farmers' Union will co-operate with the Labour Department. Farmers’ Unions are endeavouring to secure employers for boys desiring employment on farms, who will be enrolled by the Labour Department. The attention of farmers is drawn to the facilities for taking boys under apprenticeship contracts, provided by the Master and Apprentice Act 1920;