APPRENTICESHIP.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 829, 6 October 1916, Page 3

APPRENTICESHIP.

PRESENT POSITION CONDEMNED LABOUR COUNCIL DISCUSSES MATTER. (Special to The Sun.J WELLINGTON, October ,"). The special report of a committee concerning the question of apprenticeship was considered at a meeting of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council to-night. The report expressed dissatisfaction with the existing position of apprentices in New Zealand trades. Apprenticeship, it stated, had become almost a thing of the past, and lads who were entering trades at the present time were not receiving adequate facilities for becoming skilled craftsmen. In the course of a general discussion on the subject, members of the council stated that New Zealand at the present lime had scarcely any efficient system of apprenticeship. The training of apprentices, for one reason or another, was not undertaken by employers in the old way. The change was not in the interests of the rising generation of tradesmen.

The feeling of the meeting was in favour of representations being made to the Government on the subject, with the'object of securing for the boys "opportunity to acquire the technical education that they do not seem able to get under apprenticeship."