APPRENTICES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1929, Page 6

APPRENTICES

CONCLUSION OF CONFERENCE'. (By Telegraph—Press Association). Wellington, May 9. The conference called by the Government to consider apprenticeship problems concluded its sittings to-day. A resolution “That in every case where an apprentice is employed to whom an apprenticeship order applies, itoprinted or typewritten copy of the -di'dtT shall be kept 1 affixed in some cfrilfcpicuous' place 1 ill "the workshop or 'place of business where it may ibe easily read by the ■ apprentice,” Witts carried unanimously. A resbliYtion was passed‘ providing that proceedings may be 'token lor failure' W register apprenticeship at any tinie'during‘‘the employment of tlie or within six mouths thereafter. 1

A motion: “That all employers, before employing an apprentice, .shall make application to the Apprenticeship Committee or to the District Registrar of Apprentices, where no committees are set*-up, for permission to employ an .apprentice, and shall not employ such apprentice without first obtaining such permission,” was carried. '' J r l! ‘ :

Before tin*l con forenoe ■ : closed, tho Minister of Labourite W.-A. Veiteh) thanked the delegates for tluYmanner in which!'they had tackled I 'the ' problems of'lipprentieesliip. Tlie conclusions arrived at by the 1 '” boil fere nee. continued the Minister Ivould he carefully considered by the Government. He regaflic'd tho apprenticeship problem as one of great importance and of intense interest to the people of New Z’ealiiiYtL Aveiiut's'kif employment had to lie found for the young men. Ho believed that, as the years went b.v, there would be an increasing demand for skilled artisans. He was quite convinced that tlie great weakness of our education system at tno present time was that it did not provide as much as it might, ho expected to provide in the direction he had indicated. On holm If of the Government; the Minister thanked tho delep.. -• ; ii- services, assuring them ti nt their ivo nmoiidatioiis would he 1 1 eali'd as coining from a body ol oxpci'ioiK :;d and responsible men.