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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 31, 31 October 1907, Page 5

Complaint wasima'dc by-sonio-of-,the workers who gave- cviilenco -in? tho engineering dispute at tho-Arbitration Court-at Auckland that, owing; to tho oxcessive number of apprentices. employed in tho workshops an-in-ferior; class of h workman was being : turned out: The first-blaiib; engineer was becoming scarce.- Mr; Browii (says;the local '.'Huraldi'y disputed this; contention, pointing..- out that engineers trained 1 in'the Dominion had becii appointed:to prominent positions in all parts of the world; 1 One witness,-however, refused to alter his opinion. so far as Auckland district was concorncd. Sir. Fraserj :wlio subsequently gars,evidence, mentioned that .men' who had- learnt; thoir .trade in his own shops held the loading positions there at present! Ho found that locally-trained men wero' tho most i competent. In no country was tho. apprentice ablo; to gain sufficient ■ experience within five years, and another year should bo added, so that he would; have a chance to' acquire tho extra training. Mr.-T; Masefiold expressed, the. opinion that only onp out- of ten men in Auckland'was really a competent engineer. ; ...