INDUSTRIAL MANPOWER COMMITTEES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23582, 9 March 1942, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL MANPOWER COMMITTEES

♦ NEW APPOINTMENTS IN FOUR CENTRES (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 7. The Minister for National Service (the Hon. R. Semple) has announced the establishment of additional manpower committees at the four main centres. “These new committees have been set up,” said Mr Semple, ‘‘especially for dealing with appeals by employers and employees from decisions and directions given by the district manpower officers in their duties under the provisions recently made in the National Service Emergency Regulations for the control and direction of industrial manpower.” The new committees will be ready to commence sittings within a few days, They will be known as Manpower (Industrial) Committees in order to distinguish them from the present manpower committees, which are concerned with appeals against service with the Territorial Force. The personnel of the industrial committees is as follows: — Auckland—Chairman, Mr John Liddell; employers’ representative, Mr W. J. Truscott; workers’ representative, Mr K. Simpson. Mr John Read; employers’ representative, Mr H. O. Pittendrigh; workers’ representative, Mr John Arthur. Christchurch—Chairman, Mr K. G. Archer; employers’ representative, Mr T H Lee; workers' representative, Mr P. J. Kelly. Dunedin—Chairman. Mr W. N. Grantham; employers’ representative, Mr M. G. Black: workers’ representative, Mr Henry Gillard.