PLACING LABOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24274, 15 May 1942, Page 4

PLACING LABOUR

WASTAGE PREVENTION NON-ESSENTIAL WORK PRIOR CONSENT REQUIRED MAIN CENTRES AFFECTED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday New measures designed to prevent wastage of New Zealand's labour, resources through the engagement of workers in non-essential industries and services are announced by the Minister of National Service, the Hon. R. Semple, and will be enforced as from to-day, by order published with tonight's Gazette. Their object, said Mr. Semple, is to ensure that the continued drafting of men into the Armed Forces will not deplete the labour supply in industries essential to the war effort. The measures would be extended whenever it was found expedient to cover other industries. The first industries affected would be undertakings carried on in any Bhops not being restaurants, nor shops in which the business was exclusively or principally that of baker, butcher, chemist, dairy produce seller, (where the business consists of house-to-house delivers; of milk and cream), fishmonger, fruiterer, grocer, pork butcher, and coke and firewood merchant. Manufacturing Industries Non-essential manufacturing industries are listed as those making the following products, either in whole or in part:—Aerated waters, cordials, beer, biscuits, cake, pastry, confectionery, chocolate, ice cream, fruit essences, fruit extracts, margarine, pickles,, sauces, cosmetics, toys, fancy goods, (beads, cameos, playing cards, dress ornaments, flags, fancy handkerchiefs, hat ornaments, serviette rings, shoetrees and articles of a similar nature), leather goods - (other than footwear, harness, saddlery and > belting for machinery), jewellery, art metalware (such as firescreens, log boxes, metal ornaments and similar articles), sporting requisites, furs, fur garments, picture frames, shop fittings, showcases, display models or equipment, radio receiving sets and cabinets, household refrigerators, household washing machines, lawnmowers, caravans, umbrellas, gloves, mittens, frocks, mantles, costumes and millinery. Provision for Appeal The order provides that no employer in any of the industries and shops described may engage any worker without obtaining the prior consent of the local district manpower officer. Provision is made for appeal to the Director of National Service. Mr. Semple said that, as the main labour difficulties arising out of the employment of workers in non-essential work was confined to the main centres, the Government had decided that the new provisions should apply only to employers within the boundaries of the specified centres set out in the order, which are Asbburton borough, Auckland city and suburban boroughs* and road districts, Carterton, Christchurch and suburban boroughs and counties, Dunedin and suburban boroughs, Gisborne, Hamilton, Hastings, Greymouth, Invercargill, Kaiapoi, Masterton, Milton, Mosgiel, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Oamaru, Paeroa, Palmerston North, Rotorua, Stratford, Timaru, Wanganui, Wellington and Johnsonville, Lower Hutt, Westport, and Whangarei.

DELIVERY OF MILK

WHARF CLEARAGE

RETURN FROM PAPUA

SCOPE TO EMPLOY WOMEN

DAYLIGHT SERVICE IDEA The employment of women on milk deliveries to release fit men for miliI tary service was suggested by the chairman of the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., yesterday, when an appeal by Walter Herbert Andrews on behalf of Stanley Edward Andrews, milk roundsman, was being heard. Service exemption on the grounds of public interest and undue hardship was sought. Mr. Orr Walker said the only way to get over. the problem of releasing fit men would be to refuse exemption. Mr. C. J. Lovegrove, for appellant, said womanpower was becoming almost as scarce as manpower. In reply to the chairman's comment that daylight delivery was being done in Australia, Mr. Lovegrove remarked: "It seems that if we were to experience something similar to Darwin or Broome we should get something done here." The chairman said the appeal would be adjourned for two months and by that time arrangements might be made. If there was any authority blocking daylight delivery and it did not come forward to show that such delivery could not be made, the board would take the drastic step of dismissing appeals.

REMOVING WEEK-END DELAY (P.A.) WELLINGTON. Thursday Far-reaching recommendations designed to facilitate wharf clearage in the interests of the nation's defence programme wero made to the Commissioner of Defence Construction, Mr. James Fletcher, by a national committee of business organisations set up at a meeting convened by Mr. Fletcher and held on the previous day under the auspices of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. The recommendations, which cannot be disclosed at present, are intended, primarily, to relieve the delay and congestion occurring on the wharves in the week-ends as the result of warehouses not being open and carriers, therefore, being unable to clear goods discharged from ships. At present such cargoes are loaded into trucks which are not worked till Monday morning. This means that largo numbers of trucks are tied up when they may be required for urgent defence works.

AUCKLAND MISSIONARY The terror struck into the hearts of natives in the less civilised parts of Papua by the approach of the Japanese was described yesterday by an Auckland missionary, Mrs. L. Twyman, who was evacuated from the Fly River district in February and has returned to New Zealand. The Fly River natives were decidedly more primitive than those around such centres as Port Moresby, said Mrs. Twyman. When British aircraft first flew over the little port of Daru, the natives, not knowing whether they were friendly or hostile craft, were panic-stricken. Some ran into the bush and others into the water. Mrs. Twyman, who is a daughter of the Rev. hj, 0. Stanton, of Mount Albert, has been in New Guinea for two years. HOSPITAL RATING (0.C.) HAMILTON, Thursday It was decided by the Waikato Hospital Board to-day to ask the Hospital Boards' Association to call a conferonce of the principal boards and the Municipal and County Associations to discuss the incidence of hospital taxation. The opinion was expressed that, the Government subsidy to boards should be increased to £2 for £1 in the meantime or, alternatively, that the scale of fees payable from the. social security fund be increased.