INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION
MONTHLY MEETING
A monthly meeting of the Wellington Industrial Association was held last night, Mr H. Mainland presiding. : The question of assisting returned soldiers in obtaining employment came up for discussion, and the chairman urged that after all it was only the small things that counted. As General Russell had stated on Saturday It was more worth while to assist one man than to tako on numbers and hot bother about them. Mr Ward said that he had been surprised in his dealing with returned men to find how many of them wore lacking in discipline. Mr A. C. Mitchell, of the firm of J. J. Is'iven and Co.. Ltd., stated that a few weeks ago the Repatriation Board's officer asked him if he had any vacancies for returned soldiers. He related one experience concerning a returned man whom he engaged as a metal worker's assistant at a reasonable salary. "This man," said Mr Mitchell, "only stayed one week, and left without giving any notice or canse." If this went on, as he knew it did, it would only prevent other employers from engaging returned men. If every employer played tho game, and reengaged the soldiers who resigned their positions on going to the war, the retnrned soldiers' problem would cense to exist.
A letter was received from the Peace Celebration Committee asking; the association to do nil in its power to assist the function. It was decided to send n delegate to the next meeting of tho committee.
The chairman reported that tne; go©. retary had written to the Headmasters' Association, asldntt if provision could he made in the school time-table to enable the upper classes to visit various industries in operation. The object of this move was to develop a taste in the minds of the pupils, and at the same time to give them an idea of a. suitable trade to take up. "This mny seem only a. sma'l matter to us," said the chairman, "but it meant a groat deal to the senior classes now attending our schools."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10284, 20 May 1919, Page 6
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344INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10284, 20 May 1919, Page 6
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