CHOICE OF A CAREER
Engineering Popular
(By Telegraph.— Press Assneimiiui > AUCKLAND, May 7.
The engineering trades are easily the most popular among youths today and attract at least a quarter of the total apprentices, said Mr. 11. G. Dorrington, vocational guidance officer at Auckland, this morning. If tlie _ allied trades of boilermaking, motor engineering and tinssmithing were included, the boys in training were 40 per cent, of the total Auckland apprentices. Carpentry and joinery, coachbuilding and cabinetmaking represented only 20 per cent. Few youths were apprenticed today in bricklaying, painting, plastering or plumbing, he said. Parents were of the opinion that less skill would be required in the wood trades in future, because of mass production and prefabrication. The ratio of unskilled to skilled workers was rapidly increasing, assisted by the greater use of machines. Greater effort was needed to encourage boys to enter agriculture. A marked decrease had been shown lately.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 190, 8 May 1943, Page 4
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