TEACHING TRADES
PROBABLE STATE ACTION EMPLOYERS NOT WILLING (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINTON, Thursday. Addressing a conference of master builders to-day. The Minister of Labour Mr. G. J. Anderson, hinted at the possibility of the Government taking over the instruction of boys in various trades, in much the same way as is done in regard to professions at the present time. The Minister said many employers and workers were not accepting the responsibility of training apprentices, and this was not good for the country as a whole. If the Government took on this work, it would mean a revision of the present system of technical education. Tie stated that he was not expressing the views of the Government, as he had not had an opportunity of discussing the matter with his colleagues.
The remainder of the Minister’s address was devoted to a defence of the Apprentices Act, 1923, which, he said, he was convinced was > n the right lines, and would sue' in fulfilling the object for which it was framed if administered in the right spirit. As evidence of the present unsatisfactory position. Mr. Anderson said he understood there were 100 apprentices in the carpentering trade in Wellington who were unable to find places.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 9, 1 April 1927, Page 13
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