YOUNG FIT MEN
Retention In Industry Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND. February IS. Group appeals by firms engaged in essential war work and other necessary work in connexion with the home front were considered by the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board yesterday. those appealed for included munitions workers, engineers, machinists and seamen. Concern at the number of young fit men who had not yet had any military training was expressed by Mr. A. M. •Samuel, a member of the board. The chairman, Mr. Orr Walker, S.M., agreed that from time to time evidence showed that quite a number of young single men were allowed to remain in industry, though they were not fully qualified in their professions or trades. However, when it was proved to the board that production would suffer without these men or their substitutes there was no alternative but to allow them to remain in industry till, replacements couM be found by the district manpower.officer or by employers.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 123, 19 February 1944, Page 6
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