916
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

mile and a half of such work he shall not be paid for the time occupied
in travelling thereto. When the work is more than three miles from
the corner of Karangahape Road and Symonds Street the employer
shall provide a conveyance, or pay tram or train fares ; but by what-
ever means he is conveyed the workman shall be paid for the time
travelling by such conveyance before 7.30 a.m. and after 5 p.m. from
the 1st May until the 31st July, and before 7.30 a.m. and after 5.30 p.m.
from the 1st August until the 30th April.

Apprentices.

16. The proportion of apprentices to journeymen shall not exceed
    one apprentice to every three journeymen or fraction of three.

17. Any employer taking an apprentice to learn the trade shall
    be deemed to undertake the duty which he agrees to perform as a duty
    enforceable under this award, and shall pay apprentices not less than
    the undermentioned rates of wages—namely, for the first year, 10s. per
    week ; for the second year, 15s. per week ; for the third year, £1 per
    week ; for the fourth year, £1 5s. per week ; for the fifth year, £1 10s.
    per week.

18. The period of apprenticeship shall be five 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 em-
    ployer shall be deemed to be a duty enforceable under this award.

19. At the end of the period of apprenticeship the employer shall
    give the apprentice a certificate to show that he has served his ap-
    prenticeship. Should the employer at any time before the termination
    of the apprenticeship wish, for any reason, 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, to pay him the wages prescribed
    by this award according to the total length of time he has served, and
    generally to perform the obligation of the original employer ; provided
    that it shall not be obligatory upon an employer to find the apprentice
    another employer if he shall so misconduct himself as to entitle the
    employer to discharge him, but he shall give him a certificate covering
    the time actually served.

20. 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 ; and an em-
    ployer transferring an apprentice to another employer shall give
    notice of such transfer to the Inspector within one week thereof.

21. An employer shall not be deemed to discharge his duty towards
    his apprentice if he fails to keep him at work owing to slackness of
    work, but such slackness may form a proper ground for transferring
    him to a master willing to undertake the responsibility of teaching
    him.

22. When an apprentice is discharged for cause the employer
    shall send notice of the discharge, and of the cause thereof, to the
    Inspector of Factories.

23. 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 apprentice shall be considered as having entered upon
    the next succeeding year of his apprenticeship.

Preference.

24. If and so long as the rules of the union shall permit any person
    who is of good character and sober habits now employed in the trade
    in this industrial district, and any person residing or who may hereafter
    reside in this industrial district, and who is of good character and
    sober habits, to become a member of the union upon payment of an
    entrance fee not exceeding 5s., and of subsequent subscriptions not
    exceeding 6d. (whether payable weekly or not) per week, upon a
    written application of the person so desiring to join, without ballot or
    other election, then and in such case and thereafter employers shall
    employ members of the union in preference to non-members, provided
    that there are members of the union equally qualified with non-
    members to perform the particular work required to be done and ready
    and willing to undertake it. This clause shall not interfere with