UNUSUAL CASE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 177, 28 July 1944, Page 6

UNUSUAL CASE

DIRECTION OF CLERK

NON-ESSENTIAL. EMPLOYMENT

"This is the first case of its nature we have had to deal with," said Mr. J. O. Liddell, chairman of the Auckland Industrial Manpower Committee, when the direction of a clerk to a non-essential industry was discussed at a sitting of the committee yesterday. The appellant, William Thomson Miller, appealed against his direction to the British Phosphate Commission. It was stated on his behalf by Mr. R. M. Barker, secretary of the Auckland Master Grocers' Association, that he was already employed by the Commission, and had been in its employ for the past three years, but he desired to enter the grocery trade. He held a notice from the manpower officer permitting him to enter the employment of a grocer. Mr. R. Lydford, representing the manpower officer, said that Miller asked permission to leave the British Phosphate Commission, which had not been declared essential. Inquiries were made, and, as a result, the manpower authorities directed him to work with the Commission. The chairman said that the procedure was new to him, and the case was adjourned to enable Mr. Lydford to produce the authority for making the direction.