REPATRIATION BOARD.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16703, 11 December 1919, Page 3

REPATRIATION BOARD.

LAST NIGHT'S MEETING. .. The Cant.-:' -rv J>i>triet Repatriation Bjard r.'.ct l. w t ovonii".:. I'rvsrn: : Messrs A. W. .lainieson .chairman;. A. F. Drav;on. N. 1?. Mt'(".»l'r:::i. F. !• Kldridjro. F. V.". iloM-s. V.*. (io-. .1. l'». Millton. .1. V. i H. G(V!\lr.'.an. ;.nd W. 1". l.'-ai'.iev. Mr 11. <mh-> i-.nan rejHnu-?. on *oi.alt ot the S::>toi::inee and Furniture Commit;,--', that 15 applications had hi ei; approved and fov.r he'ui (•\er. Of earl'-or appiicr.tions reeonsidorel. tl'.ree iiavi Uvu granted, and t .vo held e\ er It was n-p-. r: d for the Trad>, Tools, and I'/ii]■ I'rr.en; ("niriTriittee tl'.at r-even r.pi>lic-.ition< };:>'! iioen granted, tr.nv l.old over, ami f.'iir dtviined. Eleven a]iplicalion- for i dueational and volitional wero approved. Tho Employment Committee's report showed that during the week there lnd been applications received, and onen had boon placed in employment. There were 33 men on tho unemployed list. With regard to the proposal to sot up a hoot-repairing department at the Technical College for tho vocational training of soidVvs n -w learning boot niann'V.' turing. Mr (ios:- said that Dr. Hansen, director of the College, was obtaining full particulars Irom Invcrcsirgill. As soon as all tho necessary information wa> available. ;i conferenr*' would !>o held betwe-n •member.s of the Bard and the. Technical College Board of Governor'. The chairman stated that intimation h:'.d been received j.hat the Repatriation Departiucnt approved of monov being spent »,n cvpnpnient. to teach "boot-re-pairing. It was stated that there wero no subsidised men learning boo)-repairing. Mr A. F. Drayton said it would bo a pity to take the men now learning boot, manufacturing out of tho factories when there were ,'W returned soldiers looking for employment. It was pov-iMe for men learning boot manufacturing t enrn from €3 7s ('A to C.'s 15, a week. Ono facton* had .-six men learning, none of whom had over hceg in a boot factory before, and tho lowest was paid .L' 3 7s (id a week. In this factory every opportunity was given to the soldiers to learn the but that- wa.s not tho case in -all factories. Tho Board decided to proceed with this department of vocational training as soon as possible.