CARPENTRY TRAINING

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 124, 21 February 1944, Page 6

CARPENTRY TRAINING

Applications are now being invited from returned soldiers and demobilized home servicemen wishing to cuter the State carpentry training centre at Miramar. There may also be a few vacancies for civilians ineligible for military service. Many ex-servicemen have taken advantage of the opportunity offered by the Government to train as carpenters. The No. 7 class is just- finishing its. four months’ workshop course at the Miramar centre, and will shortly commence on the final eight-months’ training, during which the trainees will build, actual State houses. Each group of six men will build two houses in this period, with one instructor supervising and training each two groups of six men. Mr. J. G. Broadhead, the instructor in charge at Miramar, is very pleased with the' keenness displayed by the class just finishing their workshop course, and he looks forward to their development into sound tradesmen as their constructional training ..progresses. Their training so far has been both theoretical and practical and has covered such subjects as use and’ maintenance of tools, classifications and grading of timbers, mechanical drawing aud mensuration, elements of building construction, elements of quantity surveying, outline of allied trades and materials, aud workshop practice. After these trainees move out on to the house construction portion of their training, a new course of 24- will enter the workshop on March 13.