TRAINING FOR UNEMPLOYED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 November 1925, Page 4

TRAINING FOR UNEMPLOYED.

BRITISH LABOUR! MINISTRY’S SCHEME. PAYMENT FOR. MEN DURING INSTRUCTION. The British Ministry, of Labour has arranged to give a .six months’ course of training to young men registered as unemployed and who have difficulty in finding employment because they have had opportunity of learning a skilled trade. There are to be four training centres —two noil-residential centres in. large towns and two residential centres in country districts. Men in non-residential centres will be trained with a view to employment in Britain. There is also, however, to be an overseas training course, to be given in co-operation with the Overseas Settlement Committee. “The Ministry of Labour Gazette,’ in which the scheme is announced, explains that it will not be possible to train men for any specific trade. A certain proportion will be given a general Course as handymen, and it will be adapted to rural requirements. The overseas course is limited to single men, and after training they are to work on the land in an Overseas Dominion. QUALIFICATION S. General applicants must be: Registered as unemployed. Between the ages of 19 antL'2s, or if ex-Service-men not older than 29. Unskilled; that i.s’ men who have bad no opportunity of learning a skilled trade, and who have not received training 'a.t public expense, or financial assistance from the Civil Liabilities or King’s Funds. Trainees in a non-residential centre must reside within easy travelling distance of the centre. Applicants for training for employment overseas must be:

Provisionally approved by a representative of the Dominion Authority. Single men between the ages of 19 and 25 (the upper age limit being raised by the period of war service up to 29). - . . ■*. Unskilled : Ready to sign an undertaking to remain throughout the course 5 , and as soon as possible thereafter proceed to the Dominion concerned. if finally approved for employment there. GRANTS AND PAYMENTS. Men undergoing instruction at nonresidential centres will receive: Any unemployment benefit to which they are, for the time being, otherwise entitled. ■ 9 A personal allowance at- the rate ot 2s 6d per week for any period while under approved training; and , A free midday meal on each day of attendance at the workshop. Residential trainees will be given free travelling facilities to and from the centre.at the beginning and end of the course. They must reside at the centre and board and lodging will be provided by the Ministry. The men training at residential centres with a view to employment in Britain will continue to receive any unemployment benefit to which they are otherwise entitled, and each man will be required to pay thirteen shillings per week towards the cost of board and lodging at the training centre. The men in training for employment overseas will receive : Free hoard and lodging in the hostel at the training centre. A personal allowance at the rate of five shillings per week in respect of a period of approved training; and Railway fares to and from the centre' at the beginning and end of the course of training (unemployment benefit will not be payable during the course of training for oversea employment). OBJECT OF TRAINING. The object of the courses of training for employment in Britain is to teach the men the use of tools, to accustom them to ordinary workshop discipline, and to improve their general employability. 'Strict discipline will be maintained, and the instructional course of any man may be terminated "summarily for bad time-keeping, unsatisfactory conduct, lack of diligence, or other causes.