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Thursday, April 12, 1973

NEW TRAINING WORKSHOP FOR APPRENTICES UNDERWAY

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A new apprentices training workshop is to be built this year

to meet the need for more properly trained artisans and technicians for

government departments.

Construction work on the new workshop, which will be located

in the electrical and mechanical office complex at Caroline Hill Road,

is expected to start in August for completion towards the end of. next year.

It will provide accommodation for more than 100 apprentices

and will have more facilities than the present workshop in the Old

Whitfield Barracks in Kowloon.

The Government has been operating a modern apprenticeship scheme

for craftsmen and technicians since 1969.

According to Mr. E.M. Laishley, Superintendent of Apprentices, ?

480 technical and craft apprentices were presently undergoing training,

and he anticipated that by February next year 640 would be taking the course.

The first group of 93 is expected to complete the course by

September 1974.

Technical apprentices receive four and a half years of theoretical

training leading to the Higher Certificate of Engineering at the Hong

Kong Polytechnic.

/Prospective