DUTIES OF MILLINERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19976, 19 June 1928, Page 11

DUTIES OF MILLINERS.

TEACHING , APPRENTICES. CONCILIATION PROCEEDINGS. The distinction between hatmaking and millinery was debated before the conciliation commissioner, Mr. P. Hally, at a sitting of a Conciliation Council yesterday morning. A definition of their position regarding their obligations to teach apprentices the whole trade was sought by several firms cited in the Northern ludustrial District Tailoresses' Award (dressmakers and milliners' section). Employers were represented by Messrs. S. E. Wright, advocate, and C. B. Plummer, R. Zukerman, and 0. Darling. Miss E. Cossey represented the union. In the course of an involved discussion, which the commissioner admitted had not greatly enlightened him, it was revealed that one of the questions at issue was where millinery, in the true sense, began, and plain factory hatmaking ended, these issues being bound up with the extent to which employers were obliged to teach apprentices the trade. Mr. Hally announced his decision to seek further information and have the parties meet him again in a month's time. Miss Cossey claimed that hatmaking factories were in distinct competition with the milliners, and therefore were not entitled to any exemption. She would, however, be satisfied if girls were taught everything performed in the factories in which they were employed.