APPRENTICE WAGES
Board Plans Increase
If it is possible to do so under the apprenticeship regulations, the Central Canterbury Electric Power Board will increase pay rates for its apprentices.
The industry was not getting its fair share' of “the bright boys” or* university graduates, said the engineermanager (Mr S. E. Slatter). Mr B. J. Harris, the board’s resident engineer at Darfield, had recently studied apprentice pay rates, and considered tha* those in the electrical industry should be raised from 32 per cent of a journeyman's pay (or 35 per cent to apprentices with School Certificate) to 50 per cent and 55 per cent respectively. “Some of our best men were apprentices,” he said. “One was top for New Zealand. To get the bright boy, we have got to offer inducement, and we can raise pay as an individual board.” Mr L. T. Griffith said that apprentices suffered financially by comparison with other boys earning £2O or more a week. The board decided to check the position, and, if the rise is permitted, to send a circular to secondary schools.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31188, 12 October 1966, Page 5
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