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Otago Witness, Issue 3954, 24 December 1929, Page 33

Details of the careers selected for boys leaving the Auckland Grammar School were given by the headmaster, Air 11. J. D. Alahon, in his annual report at the prize-giving ceremony the other evening (says the Auckland Star). Of 100 boys 10 entered various departments of the public service, 12 entered banks and insurance companies, 17 warehouses and indent agencies, 37 other commercial and business firms, three law and accountancy. Of the remainder, two took up dentistry, nine motor mechanics and engineering, one joined the Air Force, while only five went on the land. It was difficult to obtain details about the careers selected by all the boys (about 240) who left at the end of each year, but the data available revealed the fact that the professions, the public service, banks, insurance companies, business, and commercial houses absorb the largest proportion of them. The view was generally held that the broad general education which the Grammar School aimed at giving developed those qualities of mind and character and the intellectual outlook that made for success in the professional business and commercial world. —Last year £9325 worth of farthings was minted in England, compared with £OllO worth in 1914.