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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21990, 6 April 1946, Page 5

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EMPLOYMENT POSITION COLLECTION OF DATA (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 6. “Employment information represents only the tools with which the modern employment service works,” said Mr. H. L. Bockett, director of employment, in commenting on the recently gazetted employment (information) regulations. Progressive countries throughout the world, continued Mr. Bockctt, were now recognising that nations could not build for full-employment without proper tools in the form of accurate, up-to-the-minute information on the whole employment position. He referred particularly to the United States, where such information was collected monthly in very considerable detail, and also in Great Britain and Australia comprehensive employment statistics were collected and published at regular intervals. Need for Modern Methods Modern, enlightened thought throughout the world appreciated the advantages of maintaining full employment and the need to establish up-to-date employment services to serve that. end. “The establishment of a national employment service in New Zealand is entirely in line with what already has been done in Great Britain. Australia and the United States. In these countries. as in New Zealand, organisations which have been responsible for the •administration of man-power problems during the war period, have now been reorganised as national employment services. We must make proper use of _ our greatest asset—the. trained ability and intelligence of our men and women. Employment information is the starting point for this. “The journal of the British Institute of Labour Management recently declared that it is essential that employers and everyone else should supnort the nation’s plans for ftdl employment. With plans for an effective national employment service, New Zealand employers as a whole have proved to be no less appreciative of the need for the employment information now being obtained, and of the great advantages which must accrue from the availability and proper use of such information ns the tools for building full employment and industrial progress.”