ESSENTIAL SERVICES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 267, 9 October 1940, Page 8

ESSENTIAL SERVICES.

TERRITORIAL TRAINING. WELLINGTON, Oct. 9. “Man-power committees are fully aware of the necessity of maintaining production and essential serviced and all cases of men employed in essential industries are considered individually by the committees, so that where it appears that production is likely to be adversely affected the Territorial training is postponed till a moro suitable time,” said the Minister of National Service, Mr Semple, replying to an urgent question asked by Mr Massey (Nat., Franklin). “Wlien the quotas wore fixed for the number of men to be called up for Territorial training in the recent ballot, due allowance was made for the fact that a number of men would require to have their training postponed due to the essential nature ol their employment,” the Minister added. “In fixing district quotas more liberal allowances were made in the rural areas, as it was fully appreciated that at this time of the year it .would be very difficult to release large numbers of men from our primary industries/’ Mr Massey had asked the Minister for an assurance that where interruption of production was likely because of a disproportionate number of men having been called up in one particular industry or district, the organisations available for appeal would receive some direction in the matter. He said that in the recent ballot, 15 key farm workers in one district alone were drawn, and if they were to lx compelled to enter camp during the main producing period of the year, when the camps wore to he held, serious dislocation of production would result.