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Table XVIII—Apprenticeship Contracts Registered and Apprenticeship Contracts Completed During the Year Ended 31st March, 1949, and Apprenticeship Contracts in Force at 31st March, 1949

IST oxe 1. —Some trade headings used in previous years have been amalgamated with others because of new groupings of trades under New Zealand apprenticeship orders. These trades are as follows: blacksmithiug included under engineering; leadlight included under furniture; cycle-working included under other ; sail and tent making included under saddlery, Ac.; furriers included under clothing; tile-laying included under plastering; hatmaking included under clothing; wicker-working included under furniture. Note 2, —Districts administered by the District Commissioners include the following employment districts Auckland— Western North Island— Wellington— Canterbury—• Otaqo— Whangarei. New Plymouth. Napier. Westport. Oamaru. Auckland. Wanganui. Hastings. Grey mouth. Dunedin Hamilton. Palmerston North. Masterton. Christchurch. Invercargill. Taumarunui. Lower Hutt. Ashburton. Paeroa. Wellington. Timaru. Tauranga. Blenheim. Rotorua. Nelson. Gisborne.

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Contracts Registered. - £ a® Commissioners District. i Trade. >6 | o V A •8-a £ s q I 3 j 6 6 I . O 0 1 KJ ft ll I 1 * . °| Jg SO f-.s s B ! S 0 & .5 1 | Baking Boatbuilding .. Boilermaking Boot-repairing Bricklaying Carpentering Clothing Coachbuilding Coopering Dentistry Electrical Engineering Motor engineering Footwear manufacturing Furniture Gardening Hairdressing Jewellery Masonry Moulding Painting Photo-engraving Plastering Plumbing Printing Saddlery, leather, and canvas goods Sheet-metal working .. Other 17 13 13 8 4 271 38 77 4 114 222 299 3 105 16 21 3 4 40 15 15 42 60 11 22 6 9 1 122 7 26 2 35 47 102 1 23 3 9 2 1 1 15 1 9 14 9 1 12 4 19 9 8 1 172 39 38 ' '4 56 119 126 2 69 19 8 1 4 38 5 15 31 43 1 6 fy 26 5 2 7 3 155 16 39 2' 32 95 97 71 i2 5 3 6 26 *8 21 29 1 8 3 23 1 5 6 146 14 28 ' '2 28 51 74 1 38 5 4 2 3 20 4 8 10 23 10 94 29 18 30 15 866 114 208 "i4 265 534 698 9 306 5 61 40 10 18 139 25 55 118 164 14 58 18 65 18 19 18 11 577 58 91 2 253 457 492 58 269 3 23 30 6 14 77 27 28 106 219 11 52 1 231 95 63 83 56 2,695 316 585 1 1,007 1,747 2,148 151 1,119 12 136 151 19 424 59 155 594 604 53 183 52 Total 1,443 458 842 674 508 3,925 2,992 12,868