BUILDING TRADE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 September 1937, Page 4

BUILDING TRADE

SKILLED LABOUR SHORTAGE EMPLOYMENT PLAN. Plans adopted by the Government for subsidising the wages of apprentices in the building and allied trades ,out of the unemployment funds were announced by the Acting-Minister of Labour, Hon. P. C. Webb, in an interview last evening. These subsidies are intended to provide employment for young men who missed their opportunity to learn skilled trades during the depression years, and at the same time overcome the shortage of skilled labour in the building trade. They range from £l/5/- to 5/- a week, and cover a period of three years in the carpentering and joinery trade, and two years in the bricklaying trade, amounting in the first year tc almost half the total wages paid. The scale of subsidy is as follows (with total minimum wages in parentheses) : CARPENTERS AND JOINERS. Commencing at 18 years of age: Eirst year, 15/- (£l/12/6); second year, 10/(£2/12/6); third year, 5/- (£3/7/6). Commencing at 19 years of age and over: First year, £1 (£2/2/6); second year, 15/- (£3/2/6); third year, 10/(£l/2/6). BRICKLAYERS. Commencing at 18 years of age: First year, £1 (£2/2/6); second year, 10/- (£3 2/6). Commencing at 19 years of age and over: First year, £l/5/- (£2/12/6); second year, 10/- (£3/12/6).

Rates thereafter will be at the scale of pay for journeymen. *