APPRENTICESHIP.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17882, 1 October 1923, Page 10

APPRENTICESHIP.

CONDITIONS IN AGREEMENT.

(PEBSS ASSOCIATION TBLEOBAM.) AUCKLAND, September 29. At the Arbitration Court to-day, the President, Mr Justice Frazer, in reply to a question in regard to the covenant in the apprenticeship agreements, whether the Court did not think the following was unreasonable: "An apprentice shall not during the said term play at unlawful games, nor frequent hotels," said it was in the interests of both master and apprentices that the latter should not indulge in habits that might militate against his becoming an efficient tradesman, or cause him to become financially embarrassed, or to come into conflict with the police. His Honour also expressed the -opinion that certain provisions in the deed under the typographical award providing for deductions from ..wages exceeded the provisions of the award. The same remark applied to the provision where,by an employer might in certain circumstances discharge an apprentice on payment of a bonus equal to thirteen weeks' wages. It was an employer's duty to teach the apprentice the trade or- transfer him to another employer who would undertake to do so.