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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12458, 6 February 1909, Page 2

I A letter to a liohdoii paper der clares that the modern r industrial system creates unemployed by demanding boy**! for the "perf ormance of simple mechancal operations • and then turning them adrift with no useful training. Boys who are dismissed from the telegraph service have no trade at which they- can" earn their livings, and experience shows that they "lack industrial training, intelligence, and ready adaptability." They are sent out into the world. at the age of 18 and, drift into the ranks of casual labour;