TRADE WORKERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19994, 10 November 1927, Page 11

TRADE WORKERS

ASSISTING APPRENTICES PRESENTATION CEREMONY AT TECHNICAL SCHOOL Tradesmen in the making, who are attending evening classes at the Wanganui Technical School, stepped up to a platform in the Assembly liall last evening and received medals and ccrtiIficates presented by the apprenticeship committees which have been operating in Wanganui during the last two years. The boys have been studying and working assiduously at their evening classes, and for the elevon trades and 190 apprentices concerned, valuable training has been obtained. It was emphasised that Wanganui is the only town where the employer and the employee has so enthusiastically rallied round the youth in order to give him a good start in life. The chairman of the advisory board, set up by the apprenticeship committees, Mr W. McLeod, pointed out that under the Apprenticeship Act, the movement had only been in operation for two years,and its objective was to help along the working conditions and training of apprentices generally. He assured parents that it had been really inspiring to see the fine work that had been done in the classes. He also thanked the instructors for the able manner in which they had imparted knowledge to the boys. He thought also that the boys should not be compelled to go to military drill on evenings when they could be engaged on class work. In peace time the work of the college was more important to the welfare of the boys, and he thought that strong representations should be made along these lines. The Mayor, Mr W. J. Rodgers, spoke encouragingly to the boys, urging them to always “do the job for the job’s sake.” He reminded them that they were being fitted for citizenship in this wonderful Dominion. Mr A. G. Bignail, chairman of the Wanganui Harbour Board, gave some helpful advice to the boys. He disagreed with any advocacy of the abolition of military training in favour of night classes. There was room for both. Military training afforded an opportunity of enforcing discipline, and promoting physical exercise. Mr E. W. Gohns, secretary of the Advisory Board, said he did not wish it understood that the committees opposed military training. They thought that military training was essential, but considered that attendance at an evening class should count the same as an attendance at the Drill Hall. Mr I.' E. Newton, principal of the Technical College, said there was no organisation in any other town that was doing the same work as was being done in Wanganui in the training of apprentices. “Special Industrial Course” The following resolution moved by Mr L. Cohen and seconded by Mr A. J. Weekes was carried by acclamation: “That this meeting of practical men representative of employers and employees in the various skilled trades, acting as apprenticeship committees in Wanganui, considers the time now opportune for a change in the preparatory school training of boys intending to become apprentices. And we resolve to respectfully request the Director of Education to give the fullest consideration, and use his utmost endeavour to institute a “special industrial course” at our technical colleges for such boys. ’ ’ The Prize List. Medals and certificates were presented by Mr McLeod to the following:— I Cabinetmaking trade, first year: Claude Eric Mancer, Stanley Mancer (gold medal), A Munro, Stanley A. Francis, Kenneth Stuart. Cabinetmaking trade, second year: Cyril Mervyn Copley, Colin Campbell Fraser, Noel Graham, Jack Edward Norman (silver medal); Noel Thomas Quinn, John Shingleton (bronze medal) ; Victor Tomasi, Sydney Lawrence Wilson (gold medal). Painting trade, first year, John E. Longstaffe, Frederick Lewis Hartley, Leo Francis Mailman (gold medal); Charles W. T. Pedley (building construction), John Paterson (building construction), Ronald Ernest Rosemergy (building construction). Painting Trade, second year: James Dean (bronze medal); William Uings, Stanley Cornish (gold medal); David Buchan (silver medal). Building construction, first year: Sydney Francis Ashby, James Arthur Brown, Douglas Clifford Benton, PatI rick James Bourke, Aubrey Grant, Robert Wallace Garrick, N. George, John D’arcy McGonagle (gold medal); Malcolm Roydhouse, William Arthur Seal, Laurie William Stevenson. Building construction, second year: George Barnes, John Bullock (gold medal); George Egerton (silver medal) ; Hector Gowan, Gordon William Heibner, Jack Ivan Hooker (bronze medal); Reginald Maurice Louisson, Herman Nagle, Robert James Peattie. Plumbing (theory), first year: Howard Dalziq), Clem Davis (gold medal); Henry Glasgow, George Hutchinson, Adam Alcorn Shearer, Alan Blackburn, Lance Inkpen, Donald Jamieson Bell. Electrical trade, first year: Thomas Christieson, Harry J. Hawtrec, Alpha Joyce, Leslie Phillip McCarthy, Frederick H. Roots, Phillip G. Drayton. Engineering (machine drawing), first year: Jack Hamilton Beaven, Owen Churcher. Machine drawing, second year: Humphrey Aitken, Herman Buckendahi, James Eadie, Eriksen Greager, Eric Mayes. Applied mechanics, first year: Humphrey Aitken, Jack Hamilton Beaven, Herman Buckendahi. Heat engines, first year: Humphrey Aitken, Jack Hamilton Beaven, Herman Bucken dahl, James Scott. Printing trade: Cyril John Caynody, Sydney Hanton, Roy Stewart Mowat, Raymond E. Solomon. During the evening musical and elocutionary items were given by Miss M. Allomes, and Miss E. McNaught, the accompaniste being Mrs Sargent.