CERTIFICATING PLUMBERS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1507, 1 August 1912, Page 5

CERTIFICATING PLUMBERS.

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. A subject of considerable importance to plumbers was dealt with at the Municipal Conference yesterday. ' • Mr. K. T. Michaels (Auckland) moved: "Tlmt the principles contained in tho Bill prepared bv the Now Zealand Federated i'lumbcis' and Gasfitters' Industrial Association of Workers be approved of." ' , Mr. Michaels said tlint this was a matter which, though not really an Auck- • laud city motion, was. a proposal that tho Auckland City Council had been asked to bring forward .at the conference. .The idea was that there should lie a Dominion certificate for sanitary plumbers, 60 that if a man took out a license in Auckland it should not bo necessary for 1 him to take out another to do work in Wellington. The Hon. T. W. Hislop, representing Wanganui, said that thu conference lind not .had an opportunity of .examining tho machinery of tho Bill. 'As a result of a a brief scrutiny lie . had made of it ho' was of the opinion that the measure was unworkable. He ; remarked that there seemed to be a feeling in favour of centralising matters which should be managed by the municipality themselves. Mr. ,T. Wilson (tiunedin) moved as an amendment: "That tlii,s conferencfl approves of a Dominion certificate for, the registration of plumbers,, with the risrht of tho local'nutiiority to cancel such certificate for any breach of the by-law." Mr. Hislop appealed for tho amendment to be carried on tho ground that tlio principle at stake was centralisation or decentralisation. Tho amendment was carried bv a large majority, „ ,