Compulsory Training for Baking Apprentices

Grey River Argus, 1 June 1948, Page 8

Compulsory Training for Baking Apprentices

WELLINGTON. May 31. The first apprenticeship order to include provision for compulsory attendance at a trade training school has been issued by the Court of Arbitration. It is the New Zealand Bakers’ and Pastrycooks’ Apprenticeship Order, and applies to both female and male apprentices. The New Zealand Apprenticeship committee maiy order any apprentice to attend a school of instruction approved by it for instruction in baking .and pastrycooking fOK not less than one week at a. time and for for not more- than, four weeks in any year. When this trade training is ordered the for the time at the school and for travelling shall be paid by the employers at the appropriate rate, so long as the local committee receives a satisfactory report from the schoo l on the apprentice’s attendance and conduct.

When the apprentice passes an approved examination he or she shall be paid an additional 5s weekly. The term of apprenticeship in the new order shall be four years in the branches of breadmaking pastrycooking, and five years if both branches are taught. Present contracts of apprenticeship will not be changed.