TRAINING YOUTHS FOR BUILDING TRADE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 300, 15 September 1937, Page 7

TRAINING YOUTHS FOR BUILDING TRADE

Statement at Board Meeting

GOVERNMENT AND USE OF COLLEGE FACILITIES

If the builders did not co-operate with the Government in its scheme for the training of youths between 18 and 25 years in skilled trades, particularly building, the Government would, through the technical schools, where the necessary equipment existed, train available youth labour itself and undertake housing construction on its own account. This statement was made by Mr. P. E. Warner at a meeting last night of the board of managers of the Hutt Valley Memorial Technical College when possible increases in the night manual training classes were under discussion. Mr. Warner said he did not know if the employers would co-operate with the Government in its scheme, but whether they did or did not, the Government was going ahead and houses would be built. If the employers co-operated there would not be so many pupils coming to the college for instruction in the building trade but otherwise youths would be trained at the technical college and their labour used in housing construction.