MEN IN FACTORIES

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3251, 12 April 1943, Page 4

MEN IN FACTORIES

APPEAL BOARD COMMENT TOO MANY SINGLE MEN At Wednesday’s sitting of the No. 2 Armed Forces Appeal Board in Paeroa the question of single men in dairy factories was referred to by the chairman, Mr Edwin Edwards, who stated that in the third year of the war it was not right that no effort had been made to replace them with married men. This comment was passed when the position of the staff at the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company’s local factories was being considered.

The dairy company’s representative, Mr S. G. Finch, stated that his company fully appreciated the fact mentioned by the chairman and had tried to secure married men for their factories without success. The married men considered the wages in other work too attractive while housing was also a problem. If the factories could secure married ’men they would be willing to release the single men. . Decision was reserved in the following appeals:—Netherton factory, E. G. Bourne, second assistant cheesemaker, N. Lockley, third assistant cheesemaker, J. McDowell, general

hand, J. F. Sexton, general hand, N. Goble, general hand; Hikutaia factory, H. G. Brown, general hand, W. J. Lowe, factory manager; B. H. Piper, second assistant, R. 0. Pound, general hand, C. Spencer, general hand; Paeroa factoiy, F. A. Pivott, general hand; T. R. G. Lowrie, engineer’s assis’ant, W. M. Crompton, engine driver, J. Davidson, general hand, G. S. Edwards, cream grader; A. S. Goldsworthy, third assistant, G. F. J. Nicholls, general hand, S. T. Oliver, outside representative.