Nov. 20. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3475

been employed by the employer in the department of the branch
of the trade to which the apprentice is apprenticed for at least two-
thirds full time for the twelve months preceding the taking of the
apprentice.

(c.) The period of apprenticeship shall be five years, but three
months’ probation shall be allowed the employer of any apprentice
to determine his fitness, such three months to be included in the
period of apprenticeship. No boy shall be allowed to serve proba-
tion to more than two employers. The obligation of the apprentice
to serve his employer shall be deemed to be a duty enforceable
under this award.

(d.) When an apprentice has completed four years of his ap-
prenticeship the employer shall be at liberty to employ extra
apprentices in the proportion of one to every three or fraction
of the first three apprentices who have served four years.

(e.) 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 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 shall 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 obliga-
tions of the original employer: Provided that it shall not be
obligatory upon an employer to find the apprentice another em-
ployer 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.

(f.) 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 employer transferring an apprentice to another employer
shall similarly, within one week thereof, give notice of such transfer
to such Inspector.

(g.) 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 responsi-
bility of teaching him, notwithstanding that such employer may
have his full number of apprentices, but no employer shall be per-
mitted to employ more than one such apprentice in each branch.

(h.) 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.

(i.) All time lost by an apprentice through his own default in
any year of his apprenticeship shall be made up by such apprentice
before he shall be considered to have entered upon the next suc-
ceeding year of his apprenticeship, and the total period of his
apprenticeship shall be extended by a period equal to such lost
time.

General Conditions.

6. (a.) All travelling-expenses (such to include board and lodg-
   ing) and the time when travelling are to be paid by the employer.
   Time occupied in travelling shall be paid for at ordinary rates,
   but no journeyman shall be paid more than an ordinary day’s
   wages for any day occupied by him in travelling, although the
   hours so occupied by him may exceed eight, unless he is on the
   same day occupied in working for his employer.

(b.) Each employer shall provide and keep a suitable number
of benches, cramps, glue-pots, and glue-brushes, and a suitable
grindstone for the number of men employed. He shall also grant
reasonable time before the ordinary hour of knocking off, and
provide facilities for polishers to clean their hands.

7. (a.) No piecework shall be permitted.

(b.) No contract work shall be permitted on the premises of any
party to this award, unless such work is paid for at not less than
the wages prescribed by this award.

(c.) No journeyman or apprentice shall make or assist in the
production of goods for sale on his own account or for another
employer whilst he is in the full-time employment of any employer.

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