BALLOT NEXT MONTH

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23719, 18 August 1942, Page 4

BALLOT NEXT MONTH

Men Aged 35, 36, And 37

EFFECT OF CALL-UP ON INDUSTRY

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. August 17. A further list of men will be called up for service with the armed forces at an early date. Making this announcement, the Minister of National Service (the Hon. W. J. Broadfoot) said that the ballot would contain the names of men of 35, 36, and 37 years of age with children, together with the inflow in the classes previously called up for military service. About 21,000 men would be called up on this occasion, and their names would be gazetted on September 15. _ The men would be medically examined as soon as possible, but no indication could at present be given when they would be required to enter camp. The withdrawal of further men from industry to enter the forces would necessitate the application of measures of industrial reorganisation designed to offset those losses in so far as they affected the more essential industries, and further and more drastic curtailments of non-essential industries and services were inevitable. Up to the end of July, more than 50C0 persons had been directed into essential industries, while more than 2000 essential workers who would ordinarily have left those industries were prevented from doing so in terms of the National Service Emergency Regulations. , , . . . To ensure that these, and related measures of rationalisation and reorganisation of industry and the mobilisation of the Dominion’s latent labour resources were carried out with the maximum effectiveness, the War Administration had plans in hand at present involving a complete examination of industries and services. This examination would be nfierely a prelude to a further acceleration of measures designed to meet the needs of the armed forces, while, at the same time maintaining those industries and services which are essential to the community.