Apprentices To Go To Classes In Working Hours

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 November 1948, Page 8

Apprentices To Go To Classes In Working Hours

AUCKLAND, Saturday (PA).—The first daylight classes for the technical training of apprentices in New Zealand will begin in Auckland early next year and almost simultaneously in Wellington and Christchurch. Seventy-nine Auckland boys who are learning to be plumbers and easfitters will be the first pupils. Each will receive a letter directing him to attend four hours weekly during normal working hours. The New Zealand plumbers and gasfitters apprenticeship committee will extend this training to between 700 and 800 apprentices. The committee has just concluded two-day discussions in Auckland under the chairmanship of Mr. H. C. McQueen. Dominion Commissioner pf apprenticeship. Mr. McQueen said today that the motor industry will soon provide technical training for some 1500 apprentices. Daylight training for building trades apprentices has been recommended to the Arbitration Court, and is also being planned for mechanical dentistry apprentices. A special school will be established in Christchurch in conduction with the Wheat Research Institute for training bakery apprentices from all parts of the Dominion. Twenty-two Dominion apprenticeship committees will be operating by the end of this year. Twenty-two district committees are active in Auckland and the northern industrial district, and the Arbitration Court has already made three apprenticeship orders. Three more will be brought down shortly and applications for nine more will be considered within two months. _______