FACTORY CLASHES FOR APPRENTICES
DEPARTMENT’S APPROVAL OF SCHEME AWAITED
The Education Department has not replied to a suggestion that part of the training of footwear apprentices be carried out in factories. The suggestion was made by the New Zealand Apprenticeship Committee, on the recommendation of a sub-committee of which Mr D. W. Lyall, principal of the Christchurch Technical College, was a member.
Mr Lyall said that the sub-commit-tee’s recommendations envisaged two evening classes of instruction in the theory of fqotwear manufacture and one evening a week at a factory. This arrangement—new to New Zealand but well established in the United Kingdom—would enable the technical colleges to conduct courses which would otherwise be impracticable. Whether the Education Department was withholding its approval because it objected to the principle or merely to the figure which the footwear manufacturers had placed on the use of their machines, he did not know, said Mr Lyali«
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26985, 10 March 1953, Page 6
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