CHANGES IN INDUSTRY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 30 April 1945, Page 4

CHANGES IN INDUSTRY

POST-WAR PERIOD INFORMATION SOUGHT Christchurch, April 29. The Minister of Supply, Mr Sullivan, announced to-day that the Organisation for National Development was carrying out a survey of likely postwar* developments in the manufacturing industries in order to assist in the formulation) of measures designed to secure the successful transition from wartime to peacetime production and to ensure that conditions of full employment would be facilitated after the war. “While information will be of the utmost assistance to the Government in giving adequate consideration to postwar requirements of secondary industries,” Mr Sullivan said, “it is considered that manufacturers will fully appreciate the extent to which their individual interests can be safeguarded by providing the Government with the comprehensive information so necessary in dealing with the whole problem of rehabilitation. “A questionnaire which has been posted to manufacturers asks for information about manpower to assist the Rehabilitation Department in its planning for the requirements of returning servicemen. Details of projects* for new buildings for private industrial undertakings have been requested to assist the Ministry of Works in planning construction activities. In the scheme of priorities for building materials which will be necessary during the early post-war period it is essential that provision be madp for industrial buildings. If manufacturers will cooperate by providing the information asked for, an endeavour will be made to ensure that the capital expenditure plans of public authorities and business interests do not conflict and that the demand for constructional labour and for various classes of building materials is not out of balance with available supplies.—PA.