CARPENTERS' AWARD.
NOVEL FEATURES. TECHNICAL EDUCATION OF APPRENTICES. Dunedin, May 21. The Arbitration Court has drawn up an award in the carpenters' dispute, which has been before the court in various centres.
The award, which will still apply to the whole Dominion, will grant a bonus of 2d per hour during the currency of the war, making wages Is 8d per hour. The award stipulate? that every apprentice to the carpentering or joinery trade for the first three years of apprenticeship or until he'has passed a jet examination, shall attend a course of trade instruction at the nearest technical school. If the apprentice has 70 per cent, attendance at the school classes, the foes shall be refunded by the .employer. If he passes an examination equivalent to tllat of the City of Ouilds, London, the apprentice in the fourth and fifth year shall bo paid 5s a week in eciess of the apprenticeship wage. If the technical school be more, than three miles from the residence of the apprentice, the compulsory classes shall be inoperative. The allowance for men working in the country is increased from 2s to 3s 4d per day, or the employer may provide suitable board and lodgings.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1917, Page 5
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201CARPENTERS' AWARD. Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1917, Page 5
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