NATIONAL EFFICIENCY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17664, 17 December 1917, Page 9

NATIONAL EFFICIENCY.

THE WORK IN CANTERBURY. Mr J. A. Frostick, National Efficiency Commissioner, has received interesting information from America dealing "with the organisation of undertakings and businesses in that country. Milk delivery is specially referred to. It is being controlled with a view to economising labour and expenditure, in the inte-ests of the supplier, the trader, and the public. The Minister for Foods has announced that, in order to save labour and petrol, it is necessary for purchasers to carry home all but light parcels, up to "lb. in spivo of the fact that tradesmen might express their willingness to deliver the parcels. Mr Frostick has had his attention drawn to a rumour that some reservists, especially mhsterers. are being granted total exemption from military service. The Commissioner wishes it to bo known that nobody of military ago and medically fit has got, or can get, total exemption. Even in most essential industries exemption is only granted temporarily and for specific purposes, and as' far as musterers holding certificates are concerned, thev are only exempted until the date endorsed on 'the, certificate, and then on'ly conditionally upon the holders continuing their work until that date.

Mr Frostick stated on Saturday that soldiers should make a note of the day fixed as the last day on which any consideration could be given for exemption for any particular reinforcement. It had become the practice, often for good reasons, to leave appeals until the last day, sometimes even until the last moment! The military authorities-, in consequence, had not been able to keep their records and conduct their business'.