EX-SERVICEMEN BUILDERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 69, 20 August 1947, Page 3

EX-SERVICEMEN BUILDERS

TRAINING UNDER REHAB, ADVANCED COURSE AVAILABLE Arrangements have been made by the Education Department and the Rehabilitation Department for trainees at the Rehabilitation building trade training centres to attend an advanced course in carpentry and joinery at technical schools and thus have the opportunity to qualify for the Technical Schools’ Trade Certificate. To attend trainees will first have to have reached intermediate standard as it will be necessary for them to pass the intermediate technological examination before proceeding to the advanced or final stage. Necessary extra coaching is to be arranged, particularly in drawing and trade calculations, by the Rehabilitation Department. * “Although it is not expected,” states the Department, ‘that all exservicemen passing through the trade training centres will be successful in the more advanced examinations it is desired that a maximum technical education in trades should be available to all ex-servicemen who are willing and capable of undertaking such advanced training.” It is added that the passing of the final examinations referred to may be regarded as a necessary foundation for journeymen wishing to become competent building contractors on their own’account.