Opposes Direction Of Women To North

Northern Advocate, 1 October 1943, Page 2

Opposes Direction Of Women To North

(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. Wednesday. The view that it is undesirable for social reasons to have a greater transfer of female labour from country districts to the larger towns than is absolutely essential is expressed by the president of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association (Mr. A. M. Hollander) in a letter to the Minister for Industries and Commerce (Hon. D. G. Sullivan) protesting against the direction of gilds from the West Coast to essential undertakings in the North Island. Mr. Hollander’s protest was endorsed by the council of the association this evening. “Apart from the grave disquiet that is felt here regarding the social implications involved in the wholesale transference of labour from country districts to the large centres of population, there is also a feeling that this business of concentrating industry in the North Island is to the detriment of the South Island socially, politically and economically, and that post-war problems are being aggravated bv the continuance of this policy,” states Mr. Hollander. A reauest to the Government to safeguard Netv Zealand’s industrial war effort and its industrial future by. urgently revising its military commitments, taking into consideration the material requirements of the United Nations to be produced in the Dominion and the country’s essential civilian requirements, was made in a resolution adopted by the council. The.resolution stated that the Government should take this action, as the position of industrial manpower was deteriorating.