Many Seek To Enter Railway Workshops
I Per Press Association. Copyright ,l CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. More boys than can be accepted at present are applying for apprenticeships in the railway workshops, said the Minister of Railways, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan,. “When the shops resumed work after the holidays,” he added, “115 lads were taken on as probationer apprentices at the Otahuhu, Woburn, Addington and Hillside workshops. “There was a fairly largo waiting list and the boys engaged were selected in order of priority of application and on, their educational qualifications.” Mr Sullivan said he regretted that openings could not be founc| at the shops for more boys who had just left school. The majority of the applicants desired to bo fitters or turners —a preference which showed a natural bent for mechanical engineering. New apprentices who proved to be competent and otherwise suitable at the termination of their six months’ probation, Mr Sullivan stated, will be indentured for five years, except in the case of plumbers, who undergo a six years’ apprenticeship.
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Northern Advocate, 23 January 1939, Page 2
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