6 JUNE 1958, Page 7

FROM THE Manchester Guardian, June 2 : That seems to

be the symbolic meaning (let us earnestly hope that it has one) of the hearty little coming-out party enured at the end of every apprenticeship in the barrel-making industry. At least it is decisive. With the soot in his ears, blinging through a thick haze of beer and shov- ings, he knows that he has rrived.a I'll say he does!