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A parent shares a joke with one of the apprentice plumbers. Two motor mechanics in conversation with another parent. More Northland Parents Visit Auckland Another group of North Auckland parents visited Auckland in mid-September. A full programme included, on the first day, visits to Auckland University, Auckland Technical Institute, where the parents saw boys in four courses—motor mechanics, plumbing, electrical wiring and carpentry, and first-year carpentry trainees building houses at Otara. The Crown Lynn Potteries and the School for Dental Nurses were visited on the second day, and the parents noted how many Maoris were employed at unskilled and semi-skilled work, and how few took up careers which required intensive training—there being only