DUNEDIN MAN CONTROLS NEW LABOUR DEPARTMENT

Evening Star, Issue 26155, 17 July 1947, Page 8

DUNEDIN MAN CONTROLS NEW LABOUR DEPARTMENT

Following the amalgamation of the Department of Labour with the National Employment Service, the Public Service Commission has appointed Mr W. H. Cadwallader as district superintendent to control the new department, which will be known as the Department of Labour and Employment. Mr J. H. Flowers, formerly the district employment officer, is how returning to the Native Department in the North Island from which lie was seconded during the war years to assist with the manpower problem. The new department will perform' the duties previously the work of the Department of Labour, which involve the administration of the Industrial Conciliation and ■ Arbitration Act, 1925, and its many amendments, as well as some 400 awards and industrial agreements .made by the Court of Arbitration under the Act.' The department is also responsible for the administration of the Factories’ Act, 1946,’ under which the officers of the department will interest themselves particularly in the sciences of lighting, heating, ventilation and saiiitation, ‘in conjunction with the Health Department, and with the assistance of the Department of Scientific and Industrial ReThe Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, which also comes within the scope of the department, governs the employment of workers other than those engaged in the manufacturing industries, agricultural pursuits, transport, and tradesmen generally. With the department administering other enactments, such as the Apprentices Act, 1923, the Agricultural Workers Act, the Acts relating to shearers and bush workers, as well as the Workers’ Compensation Act, and the Wages Protection and Contractors’ Lien Act, the department, is brought into contact

with almost . every . man, woman, and child in New Zealand.

The Fair Rents Act also falls to the lot of the department, while rents of other than domestic premises are subject to the Economic Stabilisation Regulations, 1942, which are adminis-. tered by the department, and in which connection the district superintedentr exercises judicial functions. To the wide variety of duties arising from the administration of the laws is added the responsibility for, employment and immigration, and a, most useful service iii the home aid. ‘ f Mr Cadwallader joined the department in Dunedin in 1926, after 15 years at sea, including Royal Naval transport service during the Great War, when he gained his foreign-going master’s certificate. After three years iu Dunedin, Mr Cadwallader was transferred to Palmerston. North, where-he was soon appointed in charge and where he remained until transferred back to this city in 1936. Mr J.'A. Jackson, of Christchurch, has been - appointed assistant district superintendent. Other appointments have .been made from outside Dunedin, ’while transfers on promotion from the Dunedin office include Mr C. H. Hoskin, who has been appointed district officer in Hamilton, and Messrs W. J. McNico'l,. Smithers, Cooper, and Tuck, who will go to’Wellington, Taumarunui. Westport, and Hastings respectively.