TECHNICIANS IN INDUSTRY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 16

TECHNICIANS IN INDUSTRY

Plea For Greater Recognition

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 8. A plea for greater recognition of the technician and of his place in industry was made tonight by Mr G. V. Wild, chairman of the controlling authority for New Zealand certificates in engineering. Speaking in the Central Technical College, Petone, at a ceremony to mark the presentation of the first certificates in engineering to be awarded in New Zealand, Mr Wild said that the recipients were the first of a “great new I army." “We are going to have an enormous number coming up in years ahead, and I hope that industry will absorb them,” he said. The Minister of Education (Mr Skoglund) awarded the certificates. The recipients were: electrical, J. M. Creak. Mechanical: B W. Horsfall, D. Smith (Hutt Valley), G. P. Rule, T. G. Scandrett and R. H. Sluis (Christchurch). “Manufacturing, today, is tremenduously interested in technical education, and I believe this applies to other industries as well,” said Mr Skoglund. “I hope that the time will come soon when we will be able to inf crease our manufacturing enough , to . export its products “I believe our manufactured products are as good as anything else of their kind, and it is a fact that in New Zealand we are in--3° 1 ,?? k down on ou r own 1’ aUv dU^lJl e I 0 "’* teDd ’ normb 10ok after our own proSS?? 88 ® uch 38 products which imported into New Zealand"