TRADE TRAINING

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5325, 11 February 1947, Page 7

TRADE TRAINING

ENTRY TO REHABILITATION CENTRES. A plan has heen evolved by the Rehahilitation Board whereby, it is hoped, ex-.servicemen, particularly those with prior claims, will obtain entry to the board's trade training centres more quickly than in the past. U.nder previous arrangements ex-ser-vicemen seeking to hecome trainees have had to wait their tum in their own home centres. The new system will allow them to apply for entry to any centre in New Zealand, Wherever there is a vacancy. Every centre has a fresh intake of trainees every four months; but there is often a wide disparity hetween the niumbers of men awaiting to enter the various schools. Recently, while there were only two men waiting to enter one centre, there were over 100 waiting to enter another. The new arrangement gives an opportunity to those in the larger waitin groups of entering the centres for which there are only snrall waiting lists. Men already on the lists are being asked if they are wfiling to take their training elsewhere. This question is also being put to all new applicants. Travelling expenses, and where necessary, separation allowance, are heing met by the board, which clo'es not, however, accept responsibility for finding board or accommodation. Latest available figures revealed j approximately 2000 ex-servicemen | waiting to take up some form of occurI pational training, either at the board's | centres or on suhsidy vith private ,employers. The figure was a record and showed that there was still a large number of men ' who were not satisfied with their present occupation ajnd needed f.urther vocational assistance.