LACK OF JOBS.
FEW TRADE APPRENTICES
PROFESSIONS PREFERRED
(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 22. Submitting a. report on the apprenticeship question to the meeting of the Technical College Board of Governors to-night, the director (Mr. Howell) said ,that 68 per cent, of the boys leaving school last year wished to take up professional occupation and 22 per cent, industrial. He thought the’ chiftf cause in the decay of apprenticeship was the lack of jobs. Mr. C. H. Chapman said another cause was the fact that unskilled labour was paid equally as well as skilled. Mr. J. Barnes considered the employers should be forced to train a certain quota. Mr. C. R. Partridge said it was economically impossible to employ any more under present conditions. Employers had the interests of boys at heart, but they were not seeking bank, ruptcy. The report was received.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 September 1924, Page 5
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