BOYS AND FARM WORK
MANY COMPLAINTS MADE. [ Per Press Association. I AUCKLAND, July 25. Since the publication of the statement by the secretary of the Boys’ Employment Committee (Mr. N. C. Gribble) that he had more farm jobs available than he could find boys for, he has received a number of letters from parents, including some fathers of unemployed boys, bitterly complaining of the conditions and prospects on the farms. Replying to these objections, Mr. Gribble said that it was nothi. short of a disaster that, owing to the wrong attitude of mind, scores of openings in good farming homes had not been filled. The reasons seemed to be the cost of outfit, the remote chance, of becoming the owner of a farm, the poor wages, and the general unattractiveness of country life. Ho pointed out that clothes wore needed in the city, too, and the prospects of proprietorship were better on a farm than in most other callings. The most common cause of complaint, was the wages offered, but it was difficult to understand how a lad without experience could expect to be worth more than 5s weekly and his board to start.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 174, 26 July 1933, Page 8
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