FARMERS SEEKING BOYS
DEMAND EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY.
POSITION IN AUCKLAND CITY.
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Auckland, July 11.
The secretary of the Boys’ Employment Committee, Mr. N. G. Gribble, said today that as the result of:a special appeal to farmers: over 400 applications for boys had been received, but the supply was not Sufficient to meet the demand, many boys refraining from Applying for such jobs in the hope of obtaining city jobs. At present he had vacancies for 40 boys on approved farms, but no boys to fill them, yet the percentage of boys who had cast aside city ties and found out what farm life was really like and still wanted to return to the city was extremely small.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 July 1933, Page 7
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