APPRENTICE WAGES.
ENGINEERING TRADES.
Supporting applications for apprenticeship orders covering the general engineering and the tinsnyths and sheet metal working trades, before Mr. J. A Gilmour, S.M., in the Industrial Court yesterday. Messrs. C. P. Smith (district registrar), J. B. Walton (employers' representative) and J. Xeale (union secretary) intimated that they favoured the orders being issued in terms of the recommendations of the respective apprenticeship committees. The magistrate agreed to this course and made the two orders which cime before the Court. Under the recommendations it is proposed that workers in each group should start at a wage of 10/ a week, rising 4/ a week every six months until the end of the third year. The rates in succeeding six months to the close of the apprenticeship period of five rears would be: £2 2/6, £2 7/6, £2 12/6, £2 17/6.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 5
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