ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY
AI’PRENTIC'AkHIP CONDITIONS UNSATISFACTORY POSITION DISCLOSED Wellington, This Day. The Industrial Emergency Council | has decided to approach the electrical 1 apprenticeship committees throughout j New Zealand calling their attention to the results which were disclosed dur ! ing the council’s investigation of I apprenticeship conditions connected with the electricity industry, said the Minister of Labour, Mr Webb to-day. The Minister said the council had drawn his attention to a question, which was certainly disturbing, namely that the examination standard of apprentices in this trade at the end of their apprenticeship or in the third, fourth and fifth years was particularly low. It was indicated that the boys were not attending classes as they should and many employers did not take the trouble to find out whether the boys were attending classes. Mr W_'bb said there were probably faults in the industry itself and the council would confer with representatives of national organisations of employers and workers in the industry, together with representatives of the Education Department.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 17 October 1941, Page 5
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