BUILDING TRADE
"IRKSOME RESTRICTIONS"
EMPLOYMENT OF APPREN-
TICES
As far as the building trade was concerned, one trouble was: the lack-of young tradesmen comingl forward, a difficulty which he attributed to the irksome restrictions on 17 the ' employment of apprentices, said/ the chairman I (Mr. S. W. Fearn) at ,thp annual meeting of the Wellington ".branch «f ,the 'New Zealand Institute'pf Architects.
Reference to this question-was also made by Mr. F. E. Greenish. He said he thought that, aparit from the restrictions on apprenticeship,, there was too little incentive to ; !,the young man entering a? trade. His viewpoint and his aim had been too; limited;-there was too little in the \tfay of encouragement to study the duties and functions iof the master builder. , The average i young carpenter after attaining the status of a journeyman, merely drifted into doing work as a master builder. Members knew that the calling of a master builder was not to be despised and that it offered good-opportunities of advancement.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1935, Page 13
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165BUILDING TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1935, Page 13
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