TRAINING SCHOOLS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20877, 1 September 1942, Page 5

TRAINING SCHOOLS

RETURNED SERVICEMEN PROFESSIONS AND TRADES (P.A.) AUCKLAND, this. day. “This training school will become part and parcel of the big education scheme necessary in the work of rehabilitation,” said Mr. M. Mophan, chairman of the Rehabilitation Board, at a ceremony at which the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, opened a school of carpentry in Auckland. . ~ , ;■ “The men who are now serving With the military forces,”, said Mr. Moohan continued, “will be entitled to all the facilities of the Dominion for the purpose of equipping them to take..their part in civil life. This not only ap.plies to the training of carpenters and other artisans, but equally to men who desire to enter professions.. . : Arrangements- will be. made, for such jrien to take up studies .right, through the Universities. The s&'rrie facilities also are to be provided for farmers at agricultural colleges, while for disabled Soldiers special vocational centres will be provided. , . j, ~ “I, hope that many, thousands'Of returned men will desire, work. in_. the building trades. Hbuses.are urgently required. We must see that the men who build the houses and every other wage worker are given economic security." - ....