"E\;e'ry year 24,000 boys and, girls'' are leaving our schools and coliegesy but we are breeding 'scroungers' rather than citizens," said the Hon. E. Semple,' Minister for Public Works, when speaking at a civic reception at Greymouth. "When you do that, the bill will be paid in- years to come. It must be ended in New Zealand; it is not fair to let it go: on. If you dump a child budding into manhood on a scrap heap, 3'ou cannot expect anything from it, and that is what we are doing. To-day there is not much opportunity for a child in New Zealand. It is our task to open the door of opportunity. All we ask is that the people will give us a chance to do our job."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 8
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