THE INDUSTRIAL CRY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3215, 11 May 1911, Page 2

THE INDUSTRIAL CRY.

“ W HAT SHALL WE DO WITH OUR BOVS?”

SOAIE PERTINENT COMMENTS.

LSPECIAE TO TIMES.]

AUCKLAND, Alay 10. ; ‘AA'iiat shall we uo wiui our uoys?” is yet the cry of the Auckland Industrial concerns as heard, at the meet-mg or trie industrial dessum. {Several members related) instances that came within their personal iv-nowl-edge of trie conspicuous absence ot the young New 'Zealander in places' where he is much wanted to put Jiisi shoulder to the local wheeis of industry. One member cited l the: conclusive evidence of a three-mciii advertisement in the -daily papers which raised hut a famine crop of . applicants. Reasons were not wanting when- times were good-, said one political economistat the meeting. The youngsters were kept within tne- home circle and not sent out to catch grist for the domestic null.

Another member put it more cynically, saying that the boy-s were too independent and looked for jilaces where they could- get shorter hours. Jiot-u reasons -of course sprout from the one root. The members of tli-e Industrial Association want the boys, but they do not advocate, as a means of getting them, a return of hard times all round. In a brief incidental discussion on the matter, it was generally agreed that an evenly distributed influx of immigrants to the country districts would eventually work out t-lie cure by strengthening the basic agricultural industry, and freeing, for the- secondary industries, a larger percentage of the labor which, in such circumstances always gravitates to the city factories, but the discussion was (neither purposeful nor pursued. It was just a passing recognition of a disability whose acquaintance cannot meantime be cut.