WARNING TO APPRENTICES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 June 1927, Page 5

WARNING TO APPRENTICES

CANNOT DO AS THEY LIKE PLAIN TALK : BY MR JUSTICE FRAZER (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Arbitration Court disallowed an appeal by Fred Cornish, an apprentice employed by the Patent Slip Company, against his dismissal. Air Justice Frazer called attention to the obligations owed by apprentices to their employers. Some boys seemed to have an exaggerated opinion of their own importance, and the sooner they disabused themselves of this idea the better. The Court was always prepared to make allowances for the exuberance of youth, but there was a limit to that sort of thing. In the present case there was a complaint that the lad was unreliable and was frequently late for work. "That seems to have been proved beyond doubt and the lad's explanation was very unsatisfactory. Apparently he thinks he can do more or legs as he likes, and then come here and talk glibly and get out of it. That sort of thing will not go down with the Court. There seems to be the impression in his mind that because he is an apprentice he has a sure job for five years, and can afford to defy those in authority. The contrast does not mean that an apprentice is sure of his job. It means that he has a five years' job if he conducts himself properly and learns his work in a proper manner, showing reasonable capacity and efficiency. It is just as well ap- , prentices should bear that in mind."