Clerks must be plentiful m Auckland. Only the other day thirty sent m applications for a junior clerkship m the Savings Bank. This overplus must be to a great extent caused by parents wishing to give their children a respectable education. There is an end to all things, and so there must be to our present system of education, and parents' notions of respectability. As an instance of the evil effects of children being only educated for the mere occupation of clerk, without having any more useful or independent employment to fall back upon, m the winter of 1839, at the crisis which lasted three years, m New York alone, 2,000 clerks were obtaining relief from soup kitohens.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 643, 6 March 1879, Page 2
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