SUBSIDY OFFERED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1939, Page 6

SUBSIDY OFFERED

TRAINING IN THE BOOT INDUSTRY

ADULT APPRENTICESHIP SCHEME. TRANSFERS FROM PUBLIC WORKS AND RELIEF. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Following on representations made by boot manufacturers throughout the Dominion regarding a shortage of skilled workers, the Minister of Labour (Mr. Webb) now announces the introduction of a scheme for the transfer of workers from public works and Scheme 13 to the boot industry. The object of the scheme is to train New Zealand workers to take up the additional work resulting from the increased orders flowing in to Dominion manufacturers of footwear as a result of the import control system. The scheme has a two-fold object, in that it aims not only at assisting manufacturers to obtain skilled labour, but also at transferring workers from public works and Scheme 13 to take their place in New Zealand secondary industries. All workers engaged under this scheme must be apprenticed under written contracts of apprenticeship. Any person desiring to take advantage of the subsidy, whethe remployer or worker, may obtain full particulars from placement officers or district offices of the Department of Labour. In every case the contract shall bo for a period of 21 years, the rate of payment being: First half-year, £4 5s a week; second half-year. £4 10s: third half-year, £4 15s; fourth half-year. £5; fifth luilf-year, £5.

Towards these wages the Department will, in approved cases, refund to the employer the following subsidies: First half-year, £1 15s: second half-year. £1 10s; third half-year. £1 ss; fourth half-year, £1; fifth halfyear, 10s.