Gold watch for top apprentice
By
JANE DUNBAR
A gold watch was this week presented to a young Christchurch man for being New Zealand’s top furniture-finishing apprentice. Mr John Marshall, aged 20, has been a furniture-finishing apprentice with Hampton Studios, Ltd, in Ferry Road, for three years. He works with a qualified tradesman, and says he enjoys all aspects of the job, except the sanding. He prefers the “high class stuff, and high-tech finishes. — it keeps you a bit ahead of everyone else.”
Recent jobs have been fittingout a Georgian mansion, and a luxury yacht. The award is made annually by Wattyl (N.Z.) Ltd, a supplier of furniture-finishing materials.
The aim of the award was to promote quality in the furniture industry, said the training officer for the Furniture Industry Training Board, Mr Jim Dykes. Thorough training was important as it improved the quality of the product, he said. A lot of work was done by machines now, but it was still people who “ultimately determined the quality” of the product.
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