MANPOWER FIGURES
(By Telegraph. —Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 19. A claim that agricultural and factory production had increased and that more workers were employed on farms and m industries than before the war was made by the Minister .of Manpower. Mr. MeLagan, in an address on Saturday. He said allegations of a manpower muddle were dishonest and misleading. . Mr. McLagan said factory production had increased from £114.400,000 in the vetir before the war to 1100.a00.000 in 1041-42, ami (be number of workers m factories had increased from 101,53 u to 117,214. Agricultural and pastoral production in almost all commodities was above pre-war figures ami there were more than 8000 more mule workers employed on farms than in the year before the war.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 305, 20 September 1943, Page 6
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122MANPOWER FIGURES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 305, 20 September 1943, Page 6
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