Awards Presented To Printing Apprentices

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30472, 20 June 1964, Page 3

Awards Presented To Printing Apprentices

The printing industry wanted boys with the best education who could benefit most from the technological education offered them, said the vice-president of the New Zealand Federation of Master Printers (Mr L._ C. Fulford), addressing 60 members of the Canterbury Master Printers’ Association and their wives at a gathering yesterday at which three awards were presented to Canterbury printing apprentices. Developments in the printing industry throughout the world in the last 10 years, he said, had been greater than in the previous 100 years. "A few years ago, we were criticised for bringing a twoyear post-primary education requirement as a minimum,” he said. ‘Today a big proportion of youths coming in have three or more years of postprimary education. Their training is speeded up because of their better educational background.”

Mr Fulford said that the trend overseas since the war, particularly in Europe, had been to increase technical training and shorten terms of apprenticeship. In many industries, he said, three-year apprenticeship contracts were common in

Europe today. New Zealand

still had the equivalent of a five-year contract. Mr Fulford said last year 597 printing apprentices

attended three-week courses at the School of Printing at

the Auckland Technical Institute. A new multi-storey block had been planned at the central school to provide for the increasing number of apprentices. This would cater for apprentices for additional branches of the trade, such as i bookbinding, lithography, and ' photo-processing. The printing industry, said ' Mr Fulford, would continue to press for a properly equip- ' ped hostel in Auckland for apprentices only. It was hoped ’ this would be provided within ’ the next five years. The president of the Canterbury association (Mr B. C. . Bascand) presented three awards, in the form of vouchers for technical books on the printing industry, to Canterbury apprentices who received the. highest marks for their province at the School of Printing. The recipients were: Hand typography, Mr D. Roberts, of the Christchurch Press Oom-

pany, Ltd.; letterpress section, Mr H. E. Trainor, of H. W. Bullivant, Ltd.; and machine typography, Mr D. R. Fuller, of the Express Typesetting Service, Ltd.

Port Committees.—Railways Department representatives on Port Conciliation Committees have been appointed as follows: Messrs N. T. Phaup (Greymouth) and T. W. Ruston (Timaru).