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(rarss association tujsgjum.) "WELLINGTON, September 22. Submitting a report on tho apprenticeship question to the Technical College Board of Governors, the director said 68 per cent, of the boys leaving the school last year wished to take up professional occupations, and 22 industrial. Ho thought tho chief cause of the decay of apprenticeship was the lack of jobs. Mr C. IT. Chapman said another cause was the fact that unskilled labour was paid equally as T»eH as skilled. Mr J. Barnes said he considered that employers should be forced to train a certain quota. Mr L. R. Partridge said it was economically impossible to employ any more under present, conditions. Employers had the interests of the boys at, heart, but vrcre not seekiug ban&ruptqj;. The report was received
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18185, 23 September 1924, Page 13
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