NOT RESERVED OCCUPATIONS
LIST OF ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES EXPLANATION BY MB FRASER I (P./ ) WELLINGTON, January 18. “An essential industry as defined >8 the recent amendments to the National Service Emergency Regulations is most definitely not a reserved occupation. exempt from military obligations," said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) in an interview to-night. *» is evident,” he added, “that such con* fusion exists in the minds of some newspaper writers, judging by the editorials that have appeared during the last day or two.” Mr Fraser said that the interpretation of the term “essential industry" as carrying automatically with it freedom from military service was wholly wrong. The purpose of the amend* ments to the National Service Emergency Regulations, authorising the declaration of certain industries as essential, was to ensure that industries essential to the war effort, such as munitions, should be protected against the demands of non-essential industries in securing and retaining necessary workers. Industries declared essential industries were differentiated from non-es-sential industries in regard to manpower, but individual obligations or military service remained completely unaffected bv the new regulations.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 4
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