FEWER POSITIONS
boys leaving school '
“OUTLOOK NOT BRIGHT.”
“Inquiries from employers for boys have been few, and the outlook is not ve- bright,” said Mr. F. W. Gamble, headmaster of the Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland, at the prize-giv-inc- ceremony at the school. He said the drift of boye from iba schwl
throughout the year had: been far less pronounced than usual, being barely oO per cent, of.the.number in 1929., A..f® ir , number of boys had been, placed in employment, but there remained a. lengthy leaving, list' of boys to 'be absorbed £4 the commercial. world. . ; . Mr. Gamble caid that' any widespread failure to secure work would;, mean that an excessive number of boys -in middle and senior forms would-return to school next year. This,,-with the bmit imposed on the school roll, might mea , the exclusion of a number of begin- / ners, a most unfortunate state « axfairs. . '■
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1930, Page 4
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