EXAMINATION FEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 230, 28 September 1928, Page 5

EXAMINATION FEES.

THE CASE OF APPRENTICES.

APPLICATION AFFECTING | PLUMBERS. | PROPOSAL FOR CONSIDERATION. "We are inclined to strike the whole thing out and let the committee start afresh," said Mr. Justice Frazer in the Arbitration Court this morning after considering a. suggestion that the Auckland Plumbers and Gasfitters' Apprenticeship Order should be amended to provido for the submission of apprentices to the Plumbers' Board for examination upon completion of the fifth year of apprenticeship.

Mr. J. Clark, representing the employees, considered the suggestion was not desirable, but advocated that apprentices should he examined in about their third year. Boys willing to present themselves for examination should not be interfered with. He put forward an alternative proposal that any employer having an apprentice who had completed his term should, when ordered to do so by the Apprenticeship Committee, pay the fees in connection with submitting his apprentice to the Plumbers' Board for examination.

Mr. S. E. Wright, advocate for the employers, complained that he had not had intimation of the alternative proposal. He suggested that the Apprenticeship Committee as a whole should be given an opportunity to discuss the matter afresh.

Mr. Justice Frazor expressed doubt as to whether the committee could make an order in accordance with Mr. Clark's proposal. Employers contracted only to make apprentices tradesmen, and not registered plumbers.

Eventually the original application was struck out in order to give the committee an opportunity to discuss the alternative suggestion.