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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 81

(f.) Any worker who shall be called upon to travel to any country work for more than four hours upon a Saturday shall receive an ordinary day’s wage. An ordinary day’s wage for the purposes of this clause is a working-day of eight hours.

(g.) No apprentice in his first, second, or third year shall be sent to country work unless upon such work he is working under the constant supervision of a journeyman of the trade.

11. Piecework.

No piecework or labour-only jobs shall be allowed.

12. Apprentices.

(a.) Any youth engaged at the plumbing, gasfitting, tinplate, or sheet-metal trade shall be an apprentice, and the proportion of apprentices to any employer or firm shall be as follows: Each firm or employer shall be entitled to one apprentice; after that the number of apprentices employed shall not exceed one apprentice to each journeyman. This proportion is to be gauged by full employment of journeymen for full time for the previous six months.

(b.) The period of apprenticeship shall be six years; but three months’ probation shall be allowed the first employer of any apprentice to determine his fitness, such three months to be included in the period of apprenticeship. The obligation of the apprentice to serve his employer shall be deemed to be a duty enforceable under this award, and an employer taking an apprentice to learn the trade shall be deemed to undertake the duty to teach him, which he agrees to perform as a duty enforceable under this award.

(c.) The minimum rates of pay for apprentices shall be as follows: For the first year, 7s. 6d. per week; second year, 11s. per week; third year, 15s. per week; fourth year, £1 per week; fifth year, £1 7s. 6d. per week; sixth year, £1 15s. per week.

(d.) At the end of the period of apprenticeship the employer shall give the apprentice a certificate to show that he has served his apprenticeship. Should the employer at any time before the termination of the apprenticeship, through the slackness of trade or any unforeseen cause, wish to dispense with the services of the apprentice, he shall give him a certificate for the time served, and procure him another employer carrying on business within a reasonable distance of the original employer’s place of business, who will continue to teach the apprentice and generally perform the obligations of the original employer: Provided always that it shall not be competent for any employer to take over more than one such transferred apprentice over and above the number prescribed in section (a) of this clause.

(e.) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, it shall not be obligatory upon an employer to find an apprentice another employer if he shall so misconduct himself as to entitle his employer to discharge him, but he shall give him a certificate covering the time actually served.

(f.) All time lost by an apprentice either through his own default or through sickness in any year of his apprenticeship shall be made up before such an apprentice shall be considered as having entered upon the next succeeding year of his apprenticeship.

(g.) Any youth who has served part of his apprenticeship to the trade in any part of the Empire, or in any part of the Dominion outside the scope of this award, may enter into a legal agreement with any employer within the district to which this award relates to finish the term of six years, upon production of a certificate from his former employer showing the time served by him: Provided always that all other sections of this clause are observed.

(h.) An employer taking an apprentice shall give notice thereof, and of the name of the apprentice, to the Inspector of Factories within one week after the expiration of the period of probation; such notice shall be in writing bearing the signature of the apprentice and the employer, and an employer transferring an apprentice to another employer shall similarly within one week thereof give notice of such transfer to the Inspector of Factories.

(i.) When an apprentice is discharged for cause, the employer shall send notice of the discharge and the cause thereof in writing to the Inspector of Factories.

(j.) Existing arrangements with or relating to apprentices now serving any employer may continue, provided that any employer wishing such arrangements to continue shall forward the names of