TOO MANY GIRLS
IN WAREHOUSES AND OFFICES EMPLOYMENT OF BOYS Stating that the commercial community was responsible for the extent of unemployment among boys in New Zealand at the present time, Mr W..F. Cuthbertson, speaking at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce Council last evening, urged, the employment of boys as shorthand writers and typists.
Referring to a report from the Chamber’s Committee on Unemployment Among Young People Mr Cuthbertson said:— ‘ !
“I have felt for a long time that we as commercial men are responsible for the position as it exists to-day. I am strongly of the opinion that in warehouses, offices, and shops, far too much female labour is employed in New Zealand at the present time. tl Girls have a sphere in life that is rightly theirs, but they should not displace boys who can do the work as well.
“We cannot send all the boys away to be farmers, and many of them, can become efficient at shorthand and. typewriting. Let the girls stay at home and be the mothers —that is where thev
ought to bo. Boys arc not getting the encouragement due to those who, in the future, have to carry on the business of the country.’ ’ —“Dominion. ’’
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 122, 18 May 1932, Page 2
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