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(d!) Technical Classes 23. To provide for the requirements of rehabilitation carpentry " A " Class trainees who are desirous of extending their knowledge of the building trade, the Education Department, on representations from the Behabilitation Department, has prepared a syllabus of instruction in advance of that covered by the curriculum of the Board's training centres. This project has been favourably received, and evening classes in the main technical schools are now being conducted. 24. Table VI in the Appendix sets out the number of ex-servicemen who have benefited under the " A " Class training scheme. (iii) " B " Class Training (Subsidized Training with Private Employers) 25. The industrial groups which have attracted the bulk of the trainees under this scheme are engineering and metal trades, motor trades, retail trades, clerical and professional, and the building trades. The occupations in each of which more than one hundred ex-servicemen sought 'training were carpentry, painting, plumbing, cabinetmaking, electrical wireman, fitters and turners, motor mechanics, grocery, and hairdressing. A comparison of the totals of "B " Class trainees with those at 31st March, 1949, is as follows :

26. The Court of Arbitration has amended many of its apprenticeship orders, and in these it now requires an apprentice to attend technical classes during working-hours when so ordered by an Apprenticeship Committee. "B " Class trainees are not directly covered by an apprenticeship order, but the Board has decided that in towns where daylight classes are established to the satisfaction of the New Zealand Apprenticeship Committee for the trade concerned " B " Class trainees may attend classes during working hours if their employer consents. (iv) " C " Class Training (Subsidized Revived Apprenticeships) 27. As anticipated, new applications during the year for this type of assistance have been very limited. These mostly emanated from members of the Occupation Forces, as the claims of the majority of eligible ex-servicemen of other theatres had already been dealt with. Altogether during the year only 33 apprentices took advantage of the opportunity of reviving their contracts under the Suspension of Apprenticeship Emergency 1944. 28. Table VI of the Appendix gives the total figures for " C " Class training as at 31st March, 1950. 29. A comparison of the totals of " C " Class trainees with those as at 31st March, 1949, is as follows :

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As at 31st March, 1949. 1950. In training Training completed 1,494 2,478 874 3,194 Totals 3,972 4,068

Trainees. 0 As at 31st March. 1949. 1950. Ex-servicemen in training Ex-servicemen completed training 462 2,906 166 3,229 Totals 3,368 3,395