MANPOWER COMMITTEE

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1943, Page 2

MANPOWER COMMITTEE

DECISIONS DELIVERED The Christchurch Manpower Appeal Committee (Messrs K. G. Archer, H. Lee, and P. J. Kelly) concluded their Greymouth sitting on Saturday afternoon. In the case in which Thomas Bertrand Dowling (Mr W. D. Taylor) appealed against the refusal of the Manpower, Officer to permit him to leave the employ of Omoto Sawmills, Ltd., the appeal was dismissed. The Chairman said Dowling was a skilled man, and the Omoto sawmill was 10 short in mill staff, while Pearsons mill near Rangiora, where he proposed to go, was only one man short. Omoto, therefore, had the greater claim. Dowling, moreover, was far more necessary in his present position where he could be employed as a bushman than merely logging at the job to which he wished to transfer. John Stephen Harvey, fiddler, appealed against the refusal of the Manpower Officer to release him from the employ of United Sawmills, Te Kinga. He had been at Te Kinga for six years. A medical certificate produced advised him to remove his six-year-old child to a drier climate. Mr Mitchell said that the mill was working short-handed. The Committee took the view that no useful purpose would be served by allowing the appeal as appellant, was a Grade 1 man eligible for military service, who would be posted to camp as soon as released from his work. The- child was with her grandmother, where she was being well looked alter, and that arrangement could continue while appellant was employed by United Sawmills. The suggestion was made, however, that if a suitable man was released from camp Harvey should be released to take work in a sawmill in Canterbury until he was called up.