CLOTHING TRADES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 2, 22 July 1946, Page 7

CLOTHING TRADES

TRAINING ON SUBSIDY OPEN TO EX-SERVICEMEN Tailoring and other clothing trades are open to suitable ex-servicemen, particularly to disabled men for certain types of work, under the Rehabilitation Board’s scheme of subsidised training, says a , statement from the Rehabilitation Department. Already a number of ex-servicemen have taken advantage of the chance to enter one or other of the clothing trades included in the plan, but in view of the present shortage of qualified workers in clothing manufacture generally, it is felt that there are opportunities for many more. Clothing trades now covered by the subsidy arrangements are: Bespoke tailoring (the term of training usually being 156 weeks); bespoke tailor’s cutter (104 weeks); manufacturing tailor’s cutter—sometimes referred to as stock cutter—(lo4 weeks); clothing machinist—including fur machining (104 weeks); retail shop assistants in general drapery and mercery (104 weeks); shirt and pyjama cutter; fur cutter, designer and pattern maker; dyer, dry cleaner and presser; and dry cleaner and presser only, the last named occupation being restricted to those intending afterwards to set up in business on their own account.

Training wages in all cases commence at £5 15s a week gross and rist to full award rates. As with other subsidised trades, subsidies on wages are paid on a sliding scale, the employer’s portion increasing as the term of training advances.