LONDON BOY'S HUMOUR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19311, 26 April 1926, Page 12

LONDON BOY'S HUMOUR.

A BISHOP'S " FINE JOB." Speaking at Hertford College, Oxford, at a nieetijig of tlie Oxford and Bermondsev Club, the Bishop of Soulhw.-irk said lie had always found the London hoy of 15 or 16 to he much more alert and friendly than the boy in the provincial towns.' It was also true that at 17 or 18 the former was very often getting old, while the latter had only just begun to learn that experience was manhood. He found the London boy had any amount of pluck and was ready to undertake almost anything. He had always plenty of cheek and humour, and one boy had said to him, "You are a bishop, aren't you ? I have often thought that bishops have a fine job, and I should not mind it myself." The worst thing was that when these London boys failed to get employment and wero left to indefinitely all these hopeful qualities gradually disappeared. The bishop said ho thought there was nothing in London to-day so tragic as the case of the youths, who between 16 • and 18 were thrown out of work and. seeming to have no chance offered them in life, were growing bitter against society and the existing order of things.