MINORS IN EMPLOYMENT

Evening Star, Issue 25225, 12 July 1944, Page 7

MINORS IN EMPLOYMENT

PAYLIGHT EDUCATION ON TWO DAYS URGED STUDY AFTER WORKING DAY IMPOSSIBLE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 11. The commission of inquiry into apprenticeship legislation and pre-voca-tional and vocational education, facilities opened its sittings in Auckland today. It is expected that the sittings will continue until July 21, after which the commission will return to Wellington.

The commission dealt to-day with.a report on vocational training for apprentices and all minors iii employment, which had been prepared by a sub-committee appointed at a conferonce of about 30 delegates of interested organisations in the Auckland province. The report stated that it was generally agreed that the present system of vocational training was inadequate to meet the needs of the juvenile worker and his employer. A young boy or girl in employment should be_ given opportunities for further education under favourable conditions, and at the same time he or she should be systematically trained in some form of craftsmanship. The time was long past when minors should bo expected to undertake the inordinately heavy strain of serious technical study at the end of a full working day, and daylight education for minors in employment on one or two days a week was advocated.