COURT DECISIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 200, 25 August 1939, Page 10

COURT DECISIONS.

APPRENTICESHIP contracts.

That a contract of apprenticeship, legislation of which has been applied tor by the city mattress-making firm of VV. J. Quelch, Ltd., and an intending apprentice. Donald F. Alexander, of Hen" nerson, was one which should be properly entered into under the Furniture Trade Apprenticeship order was the judgment of Mr. J. A. Gilmour, S.M in the Court of Arbitration. The question arose at the hearing whether the proposed contract should be regarded as an i ordinary contract under the apprenticeship order or as under the Statutes | Amendment Act, 193fi. The term proi posed, however, was in accordance with j clause 7 of the order, which provides for a three-years' term of apprenticeship .in the mattress-making branch of the industry, and it was on this point that the judgment was based. The matter of provision in the contract for tuition in the operations of w ire-weaving also came up for decision. Mr. Gilmour expressed the opinion that, as the employer's business comprised wire-weaving, the contract should provide for tuition in all the branches of wire mattress-making, including wireweaving.

The matter was accordingly referred back to the apprenticeship committee, with a direction that a clause of the proposed contract, which provided that the master should not be required to ' teach wire-weaving, be deleted.