“GOING TO WASTE”
The Boy—the Nation’s Best Asset. EDUCATION SYSTEM BLAMED. • (Special to the "Star.") AUCKLAND, March 14. “I am up against it. Two of my boys who ljave finished with school have no work to do. Now the third is coming home. What can I do? Can you help me to get them something to do on the land?” “This appeal,” said Mr N. C. Gribble, to Auckland Rotarians to-day, “was made to me by a man who was obviously in despair.” The speaker gave a striking address on “The Boy—The Nation’s Best Asset.” “In New Zealand,” said Mr Gribble, “12,000 boys leave school every year. One-third of* these arc in the Auckland Province. Roughly 20 per cent of these go to agriculture and 60 per cent to Government posts, professions and town jobs. Our greatest asset is going to waste.” The speaker largely blamed the educational system, which did not meet ‘the requirements of the agricultural community. Mr Gribble outlined the work of the Future Farmers’ Committee and said it was essential that arrangements should be made whereby a boy learning *farm w r ork should have an opportunity later on of owning his own farm. This problem was a challenge to the adults of the community to see that boys were properly started in life.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 373, 15 March 1932, Page 5
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