ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 130, 29 November 1926, Page 9

ENGINEERING STUDENTS

EMPLOYMENT DURING

VOCATION

- EFFECT ON PERMANENT

WORKERS.

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,

During the vacation of the Cantorbury College School of Engineering a large number of students 'obtain employment with the engineering firms and the local bodies throughout the Dominion for tho purpose of gaining practical experience of the various branches of the profession. The students are exempt from the provisions ■of the Arbitration Court awards and are generally paid wages commensurate with the value of tho services they render, taking into consideration the fact that,they are engaged more in the capacity of apprentices than of journeymen workers. In the great majority of cases the employment of students does not interfere with that of workers engaged in the industry, but occasional instances have been reported to tho Amalgamated Engineering Association .of men being dismissed and their places being filled by students. In November, 1923, the Christchurch branch of the association protested to the Minister of Labour against tho dismissal of married men, and it was stated that an investigation by the Labour Department's officers substantiated the protest. The matter has again been the subject of action by the workers, and the secretary of the association has written to the Minister of Labour bringing under his notice the fact that married tradesmen were being discharged and that students from the Engineering Colleges were being employed in their stead.