NOT UNDERSTOOD

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 13 July 1942, Page 5

NOT UNDERSTOOD

RECENT REGULATIONS

STAFF FOR RETAIL SHOPS

ENGAGING NEW WORKERS

“Owners and managers of retail shops evidently still do not understand that they cannot en-

gage. any worker except with the prior consent of the District Manpower Officer,” stated Mr R. W. Chappell, district manpower offi-

cer stationed in Paeroa in an interview with the Hauraki Plains

Gazette to-day. He explained that he was still having instances brought to his notice where retail shops had engaged workers without consent first being obtained.

Continuing, Mr Chappell explained that the object of the regulations was to stop the practice of enticement of workers from comparatively essential work into non-essential industries.

“Enticement usually results from a {concerted action by the gaining employer and the worker concerned. In order to avoid the occurrence of widespread offences in locations where they would not easily be detected or brought to the notice of the District Manpower Officer and in view of the fact that enticement is mainly confined to the main centres, it has been decided to limit the application of the. present step to employers located within the boundaries of the borough or urban areas within which District Manpower Officer’s headquarters are situated. Exceptions to . this rule are however, provided in the cases of Hastings; Carterton, Kaiapoi, Ashburton, Oamaru, Mosgiel and Milton,” explained Mr Chappell. (•b) All factories "within the meaning of the Factories Act, 1921-22, which are not for the time being declared to be essential in terms of Regulation 9 of the National Service Emergency Regulations, and which are wholly or partly engaged in the manufacture of any of the following commodities: —Aerated waters, cordials and beer, ice cream, fruit essences and extracts, cake and pastry, biscuits, confectionery and chocolates, margarine, pickles and sauces, cosmetics, toys, fancy goods, etc., i.e., beads, cameos, cards (playing), dress ornaments, flags (fancy), handkerchiefs (fancy), hat ornaments, serviette rings, shoe trees and other commodities of a similar nature, leather goods (other than footwear, harness, saddlery and belting), jewellery, art metalware, sporting goods, fur dressing, dyeing and manufacture, picture frames, shop fittings, show cases, display models and equipment, radio receiving sets and cabinets refrigerators (household), washing machines (household), lawn mowers, caravans, umbrellas, gloves, frocks, costumes, millinery. “Should employers fail in future to comply with the regulations there will be no option but to institute proceedings,” concluded Mr Chappell.

The industries now covered are as follows: —

(a) All retail shops (within the meaning of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22) with the exception of those wholly or principally engaged in the distribution of fruit, bread,' vegetables, meat, fish, groceries, drugs and other pharmaceutical requirements, oi’ coal, coke and/or firewood, or engaged in the business of restaurants or of house-to-house milk delivery.