Good Response For Forestry Unit
[Per Press Association. Copyright ] WELLINGTON, This Day. “The response to the call to form a forestry and logging unit for service overseas has been most gratifying,” states the Commissioner of State Forests (Mr Langstone). “The specialised nature of the industry has restricted the field from which recruits could be drawn, and the - total registration of 570 in consequence is very pleasing. “The sawmilling and wood working industries, together with the State Forest Service, find employment for 9500 men,” added the Minister, considerably less than half are of the age and category suitable for military service, so that 14 per cent, of the eligible men have put in their names. “The registrations have been carefully scrutinised and applicants collected in such a way that the burden of the loss will be distributed over the Whole industry with no heavy concentrations on any single industrial unit.
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Northern Advocate, 1 February 1940, Page 7
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