APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23755, 29 September 1942, Page 6

APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING

INTERRUPTION BY WAR CITY COUNCIL PERTURBED “The committee views with anxiety and concern the fact that for several years few of its apprentices have beenable to complete their training and become registered electricians," stated the report of the electricity committee to the Christchurch City Council last evening. “Military service is claiming these youths at the age of 18. Some .hpive since gone overseas, and some are on military service in New Zealand. The serious aspect of the matter is that the training is interrupted relatively early in the apprenticeship period. After military service, whch may be prolonged, there will be the grave problem in a number of cases of a grown man being also a partly-trained apprentice. “Attention is being given to this problem by various organisations in different parts of the country. At its last meeting the committee had before it a letter received from the Supply Authorities’ Association, reporting a proposed conference to be called by the Electricians’ Institute. This question of partly-trained apprentices will be by no means the least of the many postwar and rehabilitation problems with which the council will be faced. The committee will keep in touch with it, and report further as the matter develops.”