INSTITUTE’S POSITION

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31168, 19 September 1966, Page 12

INSTITUTE’S POSITION

Timber Machine Courses Mr D. W. Lyall, principal of the Christchurch Technical Institute, says “The Press” report on the presentation of a four-sider woodworking machine to the institute by the Canterbury Timber Merchants’ Association contained “a misapprehension.” “The report said ‘Disappointment at the refusal of the Government Apprenticeship Committee to recognise the Christchurch Technical Institute’s new timber machining course was expressed by the president of the Canterbury Timber Merchants’ Association.’ “The president’s remarks actually referred, not to any course at present running at the Technical Institute, but to discussions which had taken place between the association and the appropriate New Zealand apprenticeship committee about the possibility of establishing new courses in timber machining in Christchurch,” says Mr Lyall. “The institute’s present machining courses for joinery machinist apprentices are of course ‘recognised,’ both by the New Zealand committee concerned and by the Education Department, and are attended by all New Zealand apprentices in joinery machining.”