ENGINEERING TRADES POPULAR
PROPORTION OF APPRENTICES COMPARED. (P.A.) AUCKLAND, May 7. Engineering trades are easily the most popular among youths to-day, and they attract at least a quarter of the total number of apprentices, said Mr H G.. Dorrington, Vocational Guidance Officer at Auckland, this morning. If the allied trades of boiler-making, motor-engineering, and tinsmithing were included, boys in training would constitute 40 per cent of the total of apprentices in Auckland.
Carpentry and joinery, coachbuilding, and cabinetmaking represented only 20 per cent, of all apprentices, said Mr Dorrington. Few youths today were apprenticed in bricklaying, painting and plastering, and plumbing. Parents were of the opinion that loss skill will be required in wood trades in future, because of mass production and prefabrication, he added. The ratio of unskilled to skilled workers was rapidly increasing, assisted by the greater use of machines. He said a greater effort was needed to encourage boys to enter agriculture and reverse the marked decrease shown lately.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23942, 8 May 1943, Page 4
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