MAINTAINING INDUSTRIES.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15461, 14 December 1915, Page 7

MAINTAINING INDUSTRIES.

NATIONAL ORGANISATION IN * PREPARATION. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TEI.EGRAM.) AUCKLAND. December 13. Tho Hon. A. M. Myers, Minuter >ji Munitions, saya that he ha«. been receiving applications from emplovers engaged in tJio manufacture of miiitarv supplies t;> release certain oi their employees from service. ' Tho attitude taken up is that every encouragement should bo given to employ those of non-military age or those who have not passed the medical test, inn*, freeing tnose capable of doing their ilutv at tin: present time. "Wc ii.ive now* reached a stage," continued Mr Mv«i>, "in which the f-ucstion of the polu-y 'that is to bo pursued in ro"ai'l to our industries has to be faced. F> it oft-n thought tliat Nt-.v Zealand s IKr-iti;>:i i-> such as to cast upon her the •esponsiiiility of supplying tho United Kingdom «ith produce, such as meat, < lieeTic. ami butter, to enable her to feed her v.-ist armies. and Industrie.- ivliD-c whole rerources are being tested have to bo romidrred in tiiis connexion as well as those whn ;ir<- catering for military hupplif- to tin- ..Science fore.es of New Zca'and? The n< f es«iv information ,is now before the Government, und will enable it to deal with the whole situation trith a view to organising Iho whole resources of tha country.'*