APPRENTICES’ ACT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 16

APPRENTICES’ ACT

AMENDMENT TO CLAUSE FURNITURE TRADE AFFAIRS Of interest to the furniture trade is the reserved judgment of Mr. Justice Frazer in the Northern District Furniture Trade Apprenticeship Order dispute heard under the Apprentices Act, An application was made for the amending of clause 6 of the order, and was granted in the following terms: - “(a) The proportion of apprentices to journeymen shall not exceed one to every three journeymen or fraction of three employed in the branch of the trade in which such apprentice is apprenticed. ' “< b > When an apprentice has completed four years of his apprenticeship the employer shall be at liberty to employ extra apprentices in the proportion of one to every three or fraction of three apprentices who have served four years. “(c) For the purposes of determining the number of apprentices each employer may employ, the number shall be computed upon the total number of journeymen employed for twothirds full time for six months prior to the taking on of an apprentice in each of the following branches of the trade: Cabinetmaking, pianoforte - making (other than mechanism), upholstering, chair and frame making, machining, wood carving, turning, french polishing, plateglass cutting, hand bevelling (hand bevelling shall consist of roughing, smoothing, pumicing, and . rouging), silvering, glass-polishing, picture frame making, and wire-mattress making in all branches.

“That this order shall operate and take effect as from the day of the date hereof*”