APPRENTICED TRADES POPULAR
LAST YEAR’S RECORD MAY BE BEATEN
A “clear indication” that higher wages wefre not attracting boys elsewhere was the fact that about onethird of the available boys in New Zealand were entering apprenticeships. said the Commissioner of Apprenticeship (Mr H. C. McQueen) yesterday. Mr McQueen, who-was in Christchurch on departmental business. said that boys taking up apprenticeships started at about 33s a week, increments of about 9s being made every six months.
Nearly 3500 boys became apprenticed in the year ended March 31 last year, said Mr McQueen, and in the six months ended September 30. another 1949 had been apprenticed. If this rate was maintained the number of new apprentices for the year ended March 31 this year would be greater than last year’s record figure. This was remarkable when it was considered that boys becoming apprenticed now had been born during the depression when the birth rate had been very low.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25714, 28 January 1949, Page 2
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