COMPULSORY SERVICE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VII, Issue 110, 4 May 1917, Page 2

COMPULSORY SERVICE.

ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES DECLARED. Wellington, May 3. National Efficiency Hoard has had in hand for some time the, task of classifying industries according to their importance, the object being to give the Government and Military Service Boards some indication as to which industries are essential. The board has actually classified industries and occupations into four classes :— A : —Most essential. B :—Essential. C :—Partially essential. D :—Non-essential. These lists have been before Cabinet and Cabinet has approved the following :— A :—Agriculture, cattle raising, coalmining, dairy factories, dairy farming, doctors, medical students (medical students in the first and second years and possibly the third are not considered essential), freezing works, railways, scheelite mining, sheep raising, steamship repair work. B :—Agricultural implement making, ammunition manufacture, baking, boarding department of hotels, boarding houses, boiler repairing, bootmaking, clothing manufacture, butchering, dentists, electrical power stations, engine driving in essential industries, farriers’ work and blacksmithing, fellmongering, fruitgrowing, fruit preserving, gas manufacture, gold mining, manure manufacture (including lime for agriculture), meat preserving, nurserymen and gardening for commercial purposes, qualified pharmaceutical chemists, saddlery and harness making, sugar refining, woollen manufacture. In note on List A the board makes the following explanation:—“The industries and occupations included under this heading are detemed to be of primary’ importance but the classification must- not be read as including every man employed therein. It may be that many of those now em- ! ployed can be replaced but no person should be removed whose removal would imperil the successful ; maintenance of an industry or occuI pation.” [ A note to List B rans:—“lndustries included under this heading are regarded as essefitial second only in importance to those in Class A. In this classification it may be found , that a very much larger percentage ‘ of men can be released for military service than may be possible in Class A but no person should be removed ; whose removal would imperil the i successful maintenance of the in- ! dustry or occupation.”