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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 73, 25 March 1912, Page 2

The Wellington Operative Bakors , Associathja is asking for the limitation of apprentices. T'io master bakers oppose the demand on what raiglrt be called national grounds. It was pomied out that the high wngvs now being paid for unskilled laoour in miming a shortage In supply o! skilled workers. Many •parents prefer, it would appear, to allow their lads to go out nnd earn a higher wage as labourers than would be paid them *.s npprontices. The more skilled workers there are do better, and it is surely better that a boy should servo an apprenticeship, and become, proficient in a skilled trade thnn tlrat he should remain a labourer all his life. Many and many a georo of laibonrere must have bewailed the fact when, having to compete in the open market, thut their parents had not insisted on their learning a trade. It is expected that the Comnionwreilth Government will have now bank notes, of choice design, ready for issue in July Heretofore notes of various Australian banks have been waod for Federal bank notes.

Professor Norwood, an American hypnotist, at present appearing nightly at the Town Hall, this afternoon, at 12.30, placed a young lady under hypnotic suggestion, with the idea that she should play a piano without cesastion until 9 tWs evening. The test was carried out in a shop window in Queen-street, and th« curiosity of the crowd which gathered was so great that there was a danger of the plate-glase windows being broken. It required all the efforts of two police constables and several shop assistants to keep the crowd back, and an hour later the street traffic was blocked to such an extent that the view within the window had to be temporarily screened off.