APPRENTICES

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18898, 13 January 1927, Page 13

APPRENTICES

' rnSIN, January 12. \jroi&* dissatjsfaoSP**^the City in connexion Mr Anderson W« Wl conference SfS foyers, employ • * and Educat.on DeP"*"' rLonthe subject was W't &J centre* oi*™^ ■** «*•<! Act tliat tkcy unanimous*"7T Government to pass it into » ,ff 'tiinS n evidence for many e%ul of apprentices to P* 1 -I hnd been used by the parfe for tbe of imr/£« It appeared to be nobody s *C to see that apprentices were •fth taught their trades, and SgSSUn-l that the boy* JJJarned oat as incompetent work's! **«fr this (the Minister said) *JE? wire provided, for the nTrf the Court of Arbitration, ift *u wm P oWer< *° grant a " y 'MhoUtfit. either for an ingrid dSSt or any specified <<that tho u w U t t fault as regards the quota, w it will °8 evident to any person ' jL .todies the Act that this is not . Jua* h a matter of fact, several '- Un M Otago havo not their full »ppr«ntices, the employers not Sto«ipig« tnem < 8S t,iey all6ge ¥&awfl»«t present their trade may SLjSt tbe employment of the full apprentices, the/ cannot Stbi will happen in the future. 'SgrtrAri provides for ths transfer #««#*' from one en, p ,o y er to llie position regarding the trade is no worse to-day '*Jj»iOip*fc ,re the Act was passed, *SMss** quota * n every tra(^e 'j awards. The Court > free hand to chooses. It of course on this quesnot be bound by the '. but in nearly every 5 recommendations fJfflW " nßn ' mous ly agreed "pon * StpWW by the Court. The comTdfau being composed of an equal , JfjjWer of employers and employees, Jw* u i ion an y i? lotn w^'c ' l may I)e £(Nmni«ity(l. There aro many pro- ! jfridons in the Act which are for the *£ protection of apprentices which were , | not in existence before.it was passed, find which have been,found necessary. "It is'quite certain" that if employers - mil others interested will only take a real and personal- interest in the Apprentices 'Aot and the possibilities provided therein, it will prove to Se one of the best pieces of ,legiilaiion'-ever put into operation fa this country for fostering onr «econdary7nd'nßtries, but to j «d the best oat'oQie; Act those inilfflH into it, £ ? by the exercfse of a Ifttre self-sacrifice, and a lot iS!~W* "$ the P a rt of the i, oiembera.of the various committees

POSITION IN WELLINGTON. •%.t*ra'mSß Bp«W Service.] !, ( . WitoGTON, January 12. ' « v ,f P '' W * *W I9 Yi Secretary for iion of listing boys in ', stated to-day that the tan received reports from » upon 730 boys leaving end of the year. Of this w proceeding to secondary ff >«»nindcr specified the k*TwUh to take up. So Mtone euiployor has fife J)eporWent f 9 r boys. ," said Mr.Bowley, "emma easjs nlll. Bay that «a froni faking on boys r tho restrictions to the [jprenticßS to .journeymen, \ allowed by the Court of 8» been'fiilod in only two m oabiuetmaldng 'and wspect of wo have fmh take up cabinet4S'#hing to take up~ W<r, .cannot, of courso, be B'tte other occupations k»« In the proportion of BS'provision to prevent i being engaged.