POWER BOARD APPRENTICES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 August 1930, Page 8

POWER BOARD APPRENTICES.

■ ■ i Jii " AN IMPORTANT ARBITRATION CASE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON" N., This Day. A case of interest to Power Boards and supply authorities was heard in the Arbitration 1 Court when the Wellington Electrical Industrial Union appealed against a contract passed by the local Apprenticeship Committee authorising the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board to apprentice a boy to the elecIrical trade. The ground of appeal was that the contract of apprenticeship should be with another employer so that the youth could obtain his wiremen’s license for the Union. It was contended that during his apprenticeship the yovtt|‘ would not receive the training in, wiring which, was necessary for him to; secure a wireman’s license. The Union preferred the youth to have three years ’’ wiring experience and then be transferred to the Power Board for theoretical training. Replying to Judge Frazer, Mr Waters, the Power Board Engineer, said the Board would undertake to give the lads 'training to enable them to be registered. The (Court suggested that a fair solution would be for the contract to be endorsed, shall be a term of this contract that the employer shall, during the term of apprenticeship, provide the apprentice with such training and experience or satisfy the requirements of the Wiremen’s Registration Board in order to enable.the apprentice to obtain registration.” This was agreed to.