Boys Must Be Trained for Trade

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 167, 5 October 1927, Page 9

Boys Must Be Trained for Trade

APPRENTICESHIP PROBLEM HOUSE DISCUSSES BILL (TUli BUN'S Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. HAVE the unions asked for this Bill?" asked Mr. H. E. Holland. Leader of the Opposition, of the Hon. G. J. Anderson in the House of Representatives this •vening, when the Apprentices Amendment Bill was being discussed. Mr. Anderson, who moved the second reading of the Bill, said that the unions had not asked for it, but some of the coixm ttees and various associations have naked for it. Ki\ E. J. Howard, Christchurch South; Do you anticipate any of the unions will oppose it? Mr. Anderson; I don't think so. because it does not increase the quota. It h is been found in some of the cities. Particularly in Auckland, that the district quota is absorbed in the city itself. This Bill will distribute apprentices throughout the district. Mr. A. Harris, Waitemata. suggested that it was time that door was °pe led for young apprentices, because there was a. great number of boys who were unable to learn a trade. Mr. P. Fraser: Employers are not takng their quota. Ikr. Harris: That might be so in some trades, but parents are anxious about the future of their boys. “Unless a boy has a trade in his hands he is goiig to have a hard struggle in later life,** he said. “If this goes on and toe quota of apprentices to journeymen 13 not increased these trades will run out. I cannot see otherwise." Mr. Anderson, replying after a short debate, said that in engineering, anything connected with electricity and piotor mechanics, there were too many apprentices. but in such trades as bricklaying and plastering no apprentices were to be got: in fact, the plas- I taring trade was not being made up. | f*® believed that New Zealand Indus- i tries, along with those of other counuf 8, wou *d have bo establish trade i “hols to teach apprentices trades. J ll this country it might be necessary ♦ 5° * urt her and so reconstruct our technical schools that they will really J iac “ the rudiments of the trades boys to follow. It had been discovered iirat boys had to be taught their trades anu the Government recognised the oceeaity for some machinery to en- , better treatment. Committees mien had been the outcome of this J'mand had been working splendidly. ie Intended to hold a conference of nose concerned during the recess and <> see where the machinery was not i’lWiing smoothly. Bill was read a second time and f a erred the Labour Bills Committee.