NEW TRADES FOR SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2695, 15 February 1916, Page 6

NEW TRADES FOR SOLDIERS

* NOTHING DOING AS YET, Some mouths?;,, ago Mr. W. S. La Trobe, • the director of- the Wellington Technical School, conceived the idea that the time would come when wounded men from tho front, incapacitated from following their former employ, would have to be taught other means of earning t a livelihood by following an l occupation" suitable to their coudition. The outline, if - tho scheme, which proposed that the technical schools might bo employed with profit, was submitted to the Minister iri Charge (Hon. A. L. Herdman), and: by him was referred to Mr.' W. B; Hudson, of the Returned Soldiers' Employment Bureau, and the Labour Department authorities. An inquiry was made at tho Technical School yesterday whether anything further had been done , in the direction of bringing the scheme into operation, but Mr. La Trob'o stated that he had heard nothing further in regard to tho matter. He was inclined to believe that,' with the pensions given by the Government, supplemented by the money that was to be disbursed by War Relief Associations, these' men might not feel inclined to take up other employment. If that proved to be the case, it would, ho ventured to state, not ho in the interest of the community generally in the fnturo. It was a time when the fullest resources of Empire as far as its man power was concerned should he available in some useful capacity.