TRADE SHORTAGE
UPHOLSTERERS WANTED IN AUCKLAND .. Thut t l } o upholstering contract for the new Civic Theatre had gone South because of the lack of experienced journeymen upholsterers in Auckland, was the statement made by a witness at the Arbitration Court this morning. The case in dispute was an application by tli«- Auckland Provincial Furniture and Furnishing Industrial Unipn of Employers for the proportion of apprentices to journeymen in the upholstery branch of the trade to be varied from one apprentice to three journeymen to one apprentice to two journeymen. Mr. S. E. Wright appeared for the employers and Mr. A. H. Dixon for the union. Evidence was given to show there was a great shortage of journeymen in the trade, and at times unskilled men had to be employed at journeymen’s wages to do the less important work. Mr. A. 11. Dixon contended there was no shortage. As an upholsterer of 25 years’ experience, he had never known a shortage himself. Mr. S. E. Wright said the limitation of apprentices debarred many boys from learning a useful occupation. There was undoubtedly a shortage in the trade.
Tli a application was dismissed,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 758, 3 September 1929, Page 11
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192TRADE SHORTAGE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 758, 3 September 1929, Page 11
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