ABOUT APPRENTICES.
(By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.! Christchurch, May 31. Tho question of the. supply of apprentice's and tho restrictions placed on employers in regard to them was introduced at tho Conciliation Council during the discussion of the demands of tho Canterbury Carpenters' and Joiners' Union. Clause 19 of the demands proposed that any apprentice who gained a two years' course certificate in carpentry and joinery at a technical college should be paid during the remainder of his apprenticeship ss. extra in wages. Tho Hon. J. Barr, who conducted the case for the union, held there should bo some extra remuneration to induce boya to take the technical school course. Mr. P. Graham, one of the assessors for (lie employers, said builders were not taking on apprentices now owing to the restrictions placed on the employers in regard to apprentices. ' Mr. H. R. Rushbndge, one of the assessors for the union, said that the work was becoming of a higher character owing to tho improvement in tho stylo ot. buildings now being erected. It was ngVecd that the extra proposed amount be reduced to 2s. per week, and bo paid for the last two years.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1142, 1 June 1911, Page 2
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