WARNING TO APPRENTICES.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1927, Page 3

WARNING TO APPRENTICES.

WELLINGTON, June 9. The Arbitration Court disallowed an appeal by Fred Cormish, an appernttce employed by the Patent Slip Company, against his dismissal. Justice Frazer called attention to obligations owed by apprentices to employers. Some hoys seemed to have an exaggerated opinion of their own importance and the sooner .they disabused themselves of this idea the better. The Court is always prepared to make allowances for the exulieranee of youth, hut there is a limit to that sort of thing in the present case. There is a complaint that the lad is unreliable and frequently late for work. “That seems to have been proved beyond doubt, and the lad’s explanation is very unsatisfactory. Apparently, he thinks he can do .more or less as he likes, and then come here and talk glibly and get out of it. That sort of thing won’t go down with the Court. There seems to he an impression in his mind that because lie is an apprentice he has a sure job for five years, and can afford to defy those in authority. The contract does not mean that an apprentice is sure of his job. It means he has a five years’ job if he conducts himself properly, and learns his work in a proper manner, showing reasonable capacity and efficiency. It is just ns well that apprentices should hear that in mind.”

TOTE FIGURES. AUCKLAND. June 9. There is a. substantial drop in this season’s totalisntor figures in the Auckland province. With the Auckland Trotting Club’s winter meeting vet to come, the grand total is down £472,439, being £2,492,100 compared with'£2,819,047 in 1924-25 season. At Ellerslie the season’s tote was £lOl,234 less. To date {he trotting tote was £101,189 less,