APPRENTICESHIP.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1924, Page 1

APPRENTICESHIP.

UY TKI.KGHAI’II —I*ll ESS ASSN., COI’YKIGIIT. WKI.I.IXHTON. September 22. Submitting a report on the apprentiicsliip question to the Technical Colleen Hoard of Governors' nicotine tonight, the Diieetor. .Mr Howell, said that (ifJ per cent of the hoys leaving .school last year wished to take ii|> professional oeenpations, and only 22 iltditstriiil ones, lie thought the thief <iiuse of the tleeay of apprenticeship Has a lack of joks. .Mr ('. Chapman said that another cause was the fact that unskilled lahour was paid equally as well as skilled lahoiir. .Mr .1. Barnes considered tluit the employers should l.e forced to train a certain quota. Mr I;. If. Partridge said that economically if was impossible to employ any more under the present conditions. 'l'lie employers had the interests of hoys at heart. Inn wore not seeki up' l.ankruptcy. The report was received. POSITION IN' I I.IMBIXO TBADE. WKId.INGTOX. S’t’l teml.er 22. The Pltimhers Baa.:tl of New Zealand having called attention to the unsatisfactory lcsults obtained in the last plum! ois’ registration examination, when a considerable mimhor of candidates failed to pass, the Technical Education Board to-night discussed the question. It was stated that the students attending the school had not presented themselves for the examination. Many

of them preferred to wait until they had completed their course in order to enter for the examination at the end of (In* year. The opinion v\a.s expressed that the unsuccessful candidates were not students, hut journeymen ‘•having a shot” on the olfchaine of passing. The system, under which the plumbers exams are conducted was described as unsatisfactory. To require a student to undergo a course of study that should occupy six or seven years and to hold no list until the end of that period, was extraordinaiy. The City and Builds of bunion <ei titivates in I*l um hi npc covered much the same ground a.s the Plumbers’ Board examinations. and required the passing of at least two separate examinations, and would greatly encourage tlie plumbing apprentices to take up a satisfactory ionise of study; if a similar system was adopted by the Plumbers’ Board. To hold an intermediate and final examination at the end of such year, would not cost as much as to hold two finals one in dune and one in W.-vem-hor would. These would he calculated to attain the o! jocts for which the Plumbers’ Board existed. It- was decided to communicate to this effect with the Plumbers’ Advisory Board.