PLUMBERS' BOARD.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18185, 23 September 1924, Page 6

PLUMBERS' BOARD.

EXAMINATION-SYSTEM. (rasas'association tsligbam.) _ WELLINGTON, September 22. The Plumbers' Board of New Zealand, having called attention', to 1 tho unsatisfactory results obtained in.tho las'! plumbers' registration examination, when a considerable • number of candidates failed, to pass, tho Technical Education : Board to-night, discussed tho question. It was stated that students attending the school had not presented themselves,' for many preferred to wait until ibey had completed-their, course and enter for tho examinations at tho end of the;year. Tho opinion was expressed that .the unsuccessful _ candidates were not students, but Journeymen, "having a shot'' on tho offchance of ..passing. - : The system under which tho plumbers' examinations were conducted was described as unsatisfactory. To require a stuuent to undergo ta ■ course 6i study that should occupy • six or , seven years and to hold no test until the end of the period was extraordinary. The City and Guilds of London certificates in ; plumbing ' covered: much the 6ame ground as the Plumbers' Board examinations, and required, passing at.least two separate examinations. It would greatly encourage plumbing apprentices to take up, a .satisfactory«course of study, if a similar- system was adopted by the Plumbers' Board. ,To. hold an intermediate and a final examination at tho. end:of ,each year would not.cost as much as to ,hold/two .finals, one in June and one in November, and. would be. better, calculated to obtain the objects for which the Plumbers' Board existed., ,'■'.. It "was decided to' communicate .to this •effect to' tho Plumbers' Advisory Board. ...