INDUSTRIAL LIFE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10210, 21 February 1919, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL LIFE

NEW DErAETSXEMX ADVOCATED. Presa Aaso<!lation. CHEISTCHURCH, February 20. At tlia Industrial Corporation Conference this morning a motion was passed: That this conference, re-.-ognising the importance of placing o'lr secondary industries on the best possible basis with, regard to their fullest development, cp.'is upon the Government to i-staoUsh a Department of Industries, with a Cabinet Hinister in charge. The following motion "as carried:—• That as a step towards the active development of Uie iaflisTul life of the Dominion, the Govern'JMnt bo urged at once to set up a tariff board to evolve sucn features as will iriniulate eTisting manufacturers and lead to ibe establishment of new <iue«. It was resolvj thdt the president of the Dunedin As-iO.iation be oI the corporation. Eur the enstmg year. The presidents of -various affiliated associations were—appointed i-ce-presideuta, the Wellinbton committee as the executive committee of ".'-• w.ation, and Mr H. F. Allen as secretary. The corporation also passed the following motion:—That this corporation is unanimusly of opinion that technical schools are, as. lar as the trades are concerned successful in the theoretical knowledge imparted to pupils, but in regard to the practical training the workshop of the employer is the only place to equip the apprentice with the practical knowledge necessary for a successful career, as the opportunity is very much greater than that acquired in the school, where such variety does not exist. We cordially approve of the proposal to grant bonuses to apprentices who have passed a satisfactory examination, such bonuses to be as follow : That employers undertake to pay all class fees. That bonuses be paid for first-class certificates as follow:—For first year 2s tier week, second year 3s, third year 4s, fourth year ss. ior second-class certificates, tne following scale of bonuses is recommended: —First Year Is, second year 2s, third year 3s, fourth year 4s. The meeting is further of opinion that the desire for time off in the short day of the industry in this country is not desirable .for the boy owing to the break in Ms practice and Btudv, and the break that occurs in the trade concerned as he becomes more The conference passed a resolution that urgent representations be made to the Government- to place an export ow of at least 5s per cent, per hundred feet on all timbers' exported from the Dominion.