MOTOR MECHANICS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21639, 3 November 1933, Page 13

MOTOR MECHANICS

Sir,■■--In your correspondence columns '*Rraetical Experience" seems to be labouring under a wrong impression or else is doubtful as to his ability to satisfy the examiner on matters which should be common knowledge to any good mechanic. The usual term of apprenticeship is still recognised, as it always has been, and if he thinks he can hold his customers without obtaining the ' tirade certi(ionto, nobody will stop him; but surely the opportunity of proving himself to be up to some set standard cannot be ignored for the sake of the small fee, which he calls "considerable more expense." especially now that the motoring public are getting so much more conversant with the cars they drive and own. Referring to the "first-class" tradesmen who did not pass the examination, one can only surmise tha_t, should they come against problems in their daily work that are similar to the questions in the examination, the car owners must keep on paying until the particular problem is solved, and it has been only too often the ease where the owner of a car has paid a lot of good money for parts that were condemned by some incompetent mechanics before striking the real troubje. I wish "Practical Experience every success at his next examina" ti () n. Stu.t, Learning.