APPRENTICES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 10

APPRENTICES.

ATTENDANCE AT TECHNICAL SCHOOLS. An important notice of motion has been given for the next meeting of the Carpenters' and Joiners' Apprenticeship Committee by Mr E. C. Sutcliffe, on behalf of the Canterbury Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. It is as follows: —That the Carpenters' and Joiners' Apprentice Order shall be amended by striking out the wor4s "if ordered to do so" from the first line of Clause 9 thereof, and substituting therefor '-he words "whether ordered to do so or not." Any apprentice residing within a radius of eight miles of a Technical College or school or other appror.id institution shall, during three years of his apprenticeship, or until he qha.il have obtained the certificate Hereinafter mentioned, attend the in such college in carpentering tiid joinery, ana in such case the employee shall refund to the apprentice the amount of the fees for each term in which his attendance is not less than 76 ner cent, of the maximum prssib'e. Mr W. H. Winsor. secretary of the Canterbury Master Builders' Assoeia* tion. said at last night's meeting of Ike latter body that this proposal had been submitted once before by the employees' representatives but it had been rejected by the employers, as it was felt that the State should bear tteb an expense. Ultimately those in lav our of the scheme would probably submit it to the Arbitration Court. Mr W. P. Glue (president) said i sn apprentice was to learn something at such a college, there would be no great hardship in paying the fee. In reply to Mr G. J. Watson, the secretary said attendance would be compulsory Mr Watson said a boy should be allowed to have an opinion of his t.wn. Whv should he be foroed to attend p Technical School if he did not so desire? Mr Winsor said the duty of the Apprenticeship Committee was in f-ee that the hoy* received a fair leal. If an employer was not giving a bt > a proper training, the committee had the power to send a boy to a Technical School Mr Glue said an apprentice -ceived good training at a Technical School. Mr Watson moved that no support be accorded the proposal. Mr N. McGillivray seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr Winsor said he was not opposed to the payment of boys who attended Technical Schools, but the training they received there was for the good of the public, and the latter should pay for it.