PRODUCTION CLAIMS
P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, September 19. A claim that agricultural and factory production had increased and that more workers were employed on farms and in industries than before the war was made by the Minister of Manpower (Mr. McLagan) in an address on Saturday." He said that allegations of a man-power muddle were dishonest and misleading. Mr. McLagan said that factory production had increased from £114,400,000 in the year before the war to £155,500,000 in 1941-42, and the number of workers in factories had increased from 101,535 to 117,214. Agricultural and pastoral production m almost all commodities was above prewar figures, and there were more than 8060 more male workers employed on farms than in the year before the war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 70, 20 September 1943, Page 7
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120PRODUCTION CLAIMS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 70, 20 September 1943, Page 7
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