FATHER’S CALLING IN LOW ESTEEM

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 9

FATHER’S CALLING IN LOW ESTEEM

ASPIRATIONS OF YOUTH CENSUS TAKEN IN SCHOOLS i The Education Department has taken ! a census of the aspirations of youth and the result, which has been pubj lished in the latest number of the “Chamber of Commerce Journal.” shows that not a great proportion of lads wish to follow in lather’s footsteps. Of 559 sons of labourers covered hv 1 the inquiry, only three contemplated folj lowing the same calling. There were IT sons of architects. IS sons of chemists. IS sons of doctors and 33 sons of lawyers ! covered, states the report, but M many ; as 51 lads aspired to become architects, 92 chemists. 59 doctors, and the remark- ! able number of 111 lawyers. As many as j 256 lads aspired to be teachers, though only 10S were teachers’ sons. On the other hand there were 39 sons ;of clergymen and 927 sons of farmers; 1 but altogether only 14 and 426 lads re- ; spectively aspired to these occupations. | Of 441 daughters of labourers. 13 aspired I to nursing. 96 to teaching, 174 to clerical • occupations. 31 to aliop employment. 5! to industrial work, and 11 to domestic , service. Altogether 1,133 girls aspired t-* ! becoming teachers and 1.156 lo becoming i clerks or tvpistes. Only 166 girls altogether contemplated shop and 230 Indus - j trial employment. Would-be domestics numbered 13*. but 1,016 girls declined to be led into an ex- | pression of opinion on the subject.