SYSTEM OF INDENTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 37, 13 February 1929, Page 16

SYSTEM OF INDENTURE.

ORITIOI9M IN WANGANUI.

BOYS MUST NOW SPECIALISE.

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)

WANGANUI this day.

"Before the advent of machinery and the evolution of standardisation and epecialisation it was possible for an apprentice m any vocation to learn that particular" trade thoroughly, but that does not apply to-day," said Mr. R. J. Jackson, manager of a timber and woodware factory, in the course of an interTie w. "A boy might be apprenticed and go through five or six yenrs in any factory," said Mr. Jackson, "and yet know very little about the broad field of trade in which he has been occupied. In our own factory we have not produced a boy for years who could make a simple sash frame and a pair of sashes from the raw material to the finished article. This applies to the whole field of industry.

"The idea that a boy can learn his trade in a single shop under modern methods of operation is simply absurd. To maintain the antiquated system of indentured apprenticeship binding a boy to any trade for tlio whole period of his training i H simply to ignore the facts of the trend of modern industry. That trend is to specialise, and it is thus necessary for a boy to move about in his in order to get a varied ex-