EMPLOYMENT OF APPRENTICES.
Per Press Association
WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. The Alanufacturers’ Federation Conference passed a remit to the effect “that the Federation favours a review of the Apprenticeship Act, with a view to removing the restrictions and anomalies which interfere with the employment of apprentices and facilitating the employment of young people,” Air J. G. Jeffery (Dunedin) spoke of the propaganda being carried on to increase industry in the Dominion so that they could employ the youth of tho country. Barents were suffering great anxiety at the present time as during the last year practically no boys had been absorbed into industry, largely due to the restrictions imposed by the Act. Employers were loth to accept the responsibility of taking apprentices, especially in view of the liability upon them in the event of not being able to retain an apprentice for the full period. If the restrictions were eased more apprentices would be employed. Air F. Campbell suggested that tho matter was one for the employers. It was agreed to forward a copy of the remit to the New Zealand Employers’ Federation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 21 August 1931, Page 3
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