MANPOWER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 108, 8 May 1943, Page 4

MANPOWER

In the same edition of your paper we read that the president of the Waikato Farmers' Union appeals to the .farmers to produce more and that Australia is to appeal to America for labour to replace her manpower. • Mr. Curtin, Dr. Evatt and General Mac Arthur iappeal for planes, ammunition, etc. Evidently our man-: •power.crisis, is not of • right here'and now. What, then, can-:; we think of, and adjudge a Govern- : ment that tempts men from tbeif farms and from industry by opening' a shooting .season and of the -waste» of valuable ammunition. Ministers .of. the Crown, who go,-out on- shooting expeditions are /setting .a bad; example when every, ounce of power and every hour of available working time are needed, to stave' oS defeat, let alone attain victory. What do our Allies think of us? Are we and our. leaders' to bask in the reflected glory of our boys in Africa and then- let them down? Thirty-five thousand rounds of annunition distributed fo fire at harmless birds, while. Mr. Jones makes appeals in I England- for supplies to kill the Japanese! "Where are our M.P.'s, our local body leaders? What is the .Press doing about it? You once said in a leading article, "We can take it." Yes, perhaps, we will take it once too often. T.B.M.