LONDON RAID SEQUELS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 153, 31 May 1941, Page 5

LONDON RAID SEQUELS

LONDON, Atav IS). London business men, bombed out of their city premises, are setting up new oliiees, equipped with salvaged and j second-hand furniture, in private | houses, flats, and hotels. The demand for vacant offices is I likely to increase as a result of recent air-raids. Borne blitzed firms are seeking accommodation outside London, but few suitable, country bouses are available. Agents report that most business people seeking new accommodation do not desire to leave London. As part of an intense drive to speed up tile war effort on the industrial I rout, tremendous changes are pending in the organisation of the building and civil engineering industries, with the object of greatly increasing production. modation are urgently needed. Contractors. merchants, and plant hirers will bo registered under the Alinistry of Works, which will regulate conditions of contract and supplies of labour and material. The movement of labour wilt be officially regulated to secure the, fullest concentration wherever needed. An industrial innovation will lie a corns of registered mobile workers, for which ]Of) 000 volunteers will be sought for a year’s service.