APPRENTICE CONTRACTS
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Record Expected This Year BIG IMPROVEMENT SHOWN
(By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, Last N?ght. "The ppprenticesliip position in New Zealand has improved greatly," declar- . ed the Minister of . Labour, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, when interviewed today. "Information is now being gained throughout the Dominion as to the total ordinafy apprentices in the various trades; and when these returns are completed they are expected to show "that the present year will provo a record; in faet, the figures at the present time indieate that the number" of ordinary contracts entered iiito for the past ciglit months have been appro.ximately the same as the number of apprentices taken on in a normal year." , , In' referring to ;h^ legislation of last session dealing with young men who missed their oppbrtunities during the depression, Mr Armstrong said that to datc 363 special contracts had been cntired into, while a large number cf' cther cases were under investigatjon.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 52, 24 November 1937, Page 6
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