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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1975
+COSTING ABOUT $8.8 MILLION, THIS CENTRE WILL PROVIDE ONE-YEAR FULL-TIME BASIC TRAINING FOR ABOUT 600 CRAFT TRAINEES IN BRICK- LAYING AND PLASTERING, CARPENTRY, PAINTING AND DECORATING, PLUMBING AND PIPE FITTING, BAMBOO SCAFFOLDING AND MASONRY. A COURSE IN PLANT MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS HAS ALSO BEEN PLANNED,+ HE SAID.
MR. CHUI POINTED OUT THAT THE LATEST MANPOWER SURVEYS HAD SHOWN THAT THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY NEEDED 700 NEW SKILLED CRAFTSMEN EACH YEAR, AND THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY NEEDED AS MANY AS 17,000 TRAINED MACHINE OPERATORS.
+ THE TRAINING CENTRES,+ HE ADDED, +ARE EXPECTED TO GO A LONG WAY TOWARDS MEETING THE CONTINUALLY GROWING DEMAND OF TRAINED PERSONNEL IN THE TWO INDUSTRIES.+
HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT THE TRAINING LEVY SYSTEM WAS INITIATED BY EMPLOYERS IN THE TWO INDUSTRIES AS A SOLUTION TO THEIR PROBLEM OF MANPOWER SHORTAGE, AND TO THE PROBLEM OF HOW TO SHARE THE COST OF PROVIDING PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR SKILLED AND SEMI-SKILLED WORKERS.
+THE RATE OF LEVY, HOWEVER, REMAINS TO BE RECOMMENDED BY THE TWO TRAINING AUTHORITIES AND APPROVED BY RESOLUTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
+THE LEVIES WOULD MOST LIKELY COME INTO FORCE AT THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR, AND WORK ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TRAINING CENTRES WOULD BEGIN A FEW MONTHS LATER, FOR COMPLETION IN' TIME FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF THE FIRST TRAINEES IN 1977,+ HE SAID.
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