OCCUPATION FOR YOUTH
Sir, —A number of well-intentioned, but rather foolish, people have recently written expressing concern for the future of our young men, and advancing various schemes for putting them on the land and making farmers of them. I would like to know why make farmers of them, and condemn them to a life of hard and constant toil, at the poorest remuneration of any worker in the Dominion, with no future prospects except being the beast of burden for the whole community. The question of what to do with our youths presents no problem to me. 1 say. without hesitation, make navvies, wharf labourers and slaughtermen of every one of them. They can then enjoy the highest wages (and can always ask for more), the shortest hours, and all the holidays and privileges'that pertain to these occupations, with the future prospect'of rising to be a strike leader, a union secretary, and even a member of Parliament. Far North.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 15
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