Commonwealth Plan for Apprentices
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A COMMONWEALTH apprentice r-1 training scheme, designed to provide a thorough engineering training at the Brush-Aboe group of factories, was recently announced by Sir Ronald Matthews, chairman of the group. The scheme will allow for two years' study of the products and methods of production followed by the group, and throughout the course apprentices will be able to contact senior members of the staff and experienced technical specialists who will guide them on particular aspects of their studies.
A free return passage from the apprentices' home to England will le provided, together with additional travelling expenses. Wages will be the same as those paid to other graduate apprentices at present working at the group's factories.
OBITUARY
yVE regret to 'record the death of VT MR. ERNEST HENDEnsoN, director of Ernest Henderson (Transport), Ltd., Gateshead, MR. C. E. MEARS, of David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd., and MR. DAVID RICHARDSON.
Mr. Richardson, an early member of the original Road Haulage Association and a former vice-president of the National Road Transport Federation, died, at the age of 78, on February 9.
BEE-LINE-BRAITHWA1TE PROGRAMME
QEVEN Continental tours are to be 1,-/run by Bee-Line Continental Tours, Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, this year. They are to Paris, Switzerland, the Riviera, Austria, Biarritz, Holland and Norway. Prices range from £30 for the Paris tour, lasting eight days, to £60 for the I6-day Austrian and Biarritz trips.
Braithwaite Tours, run in conjunction with Bee-Line, will cover Bournemouth, the Isle of Wight, Ilfracombe and Clovelly, North Wales, the Scottish Highlands, London (Festival of Britain) and Warwick. Charges range from £10 10s. to £16 16s.
s DON'T CUT ROAD EXPENDITURE THE danger in cutting road expendi ture to pay for defence has been pointed out by the British Road Federation. "Could the roads in their present state stand up to a repetition of the demands made upon them in the last war? The answer to this question might come as a shock," it says. Roads were a vital part of the apparatus of defence and a vital element in industrial production.
P.O.A. MIN1BITION IN conjunction with its annual national I conference at Llandudno, from September 27-30, the Purchasing Officers' Association is to hold another " Minibition." The show is designed so that the maximum information about exhibitors' products can be economically displayed. The stands will he adjacent to the main conference room.