APPRENTICES’ ACT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19783, 7 May 1926, Page 10

APPRENTICES’ ACT.

QUESTION OF TRANSFERS. RULING BY THE COURT. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 6. An important matter brought before the Arbitration Court in Auckland vas that of the transfer of apprentices, whose employers had not been able to discharge their obligations, and of apprentices whom it was found impossible to transfer owing to other employers having already their full quota of apprentices. The court has now decided that the power and discretion provided for in section 13 of the Apprentices Act may be exercised by the District Registrar and the Apprenticeship Committee, notwithstanding that the employer to whom it is proposed to transfer an apprentice has already his full quota as determined by the order. In a memorandum the court states that this order lias been made in response to representations made to the com t by the district registrar of apprentices at Auckland. It appeared that the difficulty had arisen owing to a number of firms becoming insolvent and going out of business, thus leaving their apprentices unprovided for, and without effective redress, bmtable employers were willing to employ them but were prevented by the individual proportion clauses from doing so The present order was intended to meet such a position. It did not, of course, operate so as to increase the total number of apprentices in the district, but provided a means of absorbing the existing apprentices who would otherwise have no* opportunity of completing their train--113 Following an application by the Apprenticeship Committee m the motor engineering industry, the court has made an order calling upon every employer of an apprentice to the trade or a motor mechanic within the radius of 12 miles of the Seddon Memorial Technical College at Auckland to pay the sum of Is m respect of everv apprentice employed by him in the trade between tbs date of the order and December 31, 1925, and also in respect of every apprentice employed by him during 1926.