RIGHT OF APPEAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 252, 23 October 1943, Page 6

RIGHT OF APPEAL

RECRUITING OF GIRLS EMPLOYERS' SAFEGUARD (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday. As a guard against essential industry being adversely affected by recruiting for the women's land army, provision is being made for employers of girls enlisting to have the right of appeal where the recruits are already in essential undertakings, said the president of the New Zealand Manufacturers' Federation, Mr. C. V. Smith, in addressing a meeting of the Garment Manufacturing Association last night. He said the principal reason why certain types of civilian goods were in short supply, was still because of the shortage of manpower, and it was considered that land girls should be drawn from non-industrial areas, where they had closer contact with farm life, and where their homes were more likely to be nearer their wc*i'k. The provision of special uniforms and other equipment for land girls, it was felt, would also increase the difficulties of meeting essential civilian requirements. The federation's viewpoint had been explained to the Government and advice had been received that the National Service Department was making arrangements for manufacturers and others to have the right of appeal to manpower committees.