TRAINING SCHEME
Railwaymen Returning From War The chairman of the Rehabilitation Board, Mr. M. Moohan, announced yesterday that arrangements had been made with the Railways Department to inaugurate a training scheme whereby unskilled and semi-skilled returned railway servicemen will be given an opportunity to become fitters, turners, moulders, boilermakers, welders, blacksmiths, electricians, tinsmiths, coppersmiths, plumbers, bricklayers, painters and carpenters. Training is to ho given at the four main railway workshops and also at Invercargill, Easttown, Napier, on the West Coast and in other places. Trainees will commence at the weekly rate of £5/5/- and progressive increases will bring this to £6 in the last six months of training. A similar scheme for returned soldiers of other Government departments is being arranged.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 307, 22 September 1943, Page 6
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121TRAINING SCHEME Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 307, 22 September 1943, Page 6
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