APPRENTICE’ ACT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19826, 28 April 1927, Page 8

APPRENTICE’ ACT

DIFFICULT PROBLEM ARBITRATION COURT’S POLICY [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, April 27. The policy of the Arbitration Court towards the Apprenticeship Act was outlined by Mr Justice Frazer this morning. He said the question of district proportion had caused a good deal of heartburning, but it should be remembered that the Act required the Court in all cases to fix the district proportions. The Court must be reasonable and take the view that the conclusions of the apprenticeship committees wore correct. On the genera] subject of appeals, it was difficult for an appeal to succeed for it would probably be against the decision of the district registrar, who had refused to register on the ground that the district proportion was full. An appeal could only be successful if it were shown that there was a mis take in his figures. What the Court had tried to do was to so arrange the district proportion in each trade to allow a sufficient number of boys to come on, also to allow* for reasonable expansion of trade, to make provision for wasteges or removals from the district. In addition the Court endeavoured to provide for a small surplus of journeymen and tried to prevent boys being deviated into trades where there was not plenty of work. The Act had been subjected to a great deal of thought by the Minister of Labour, and His Honour felt quite sure that if any part of the Act were found to be unworkable it would receive his fullest attention.