INDUSTRIAL MAN-POWER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25241, 2 June 1943, Page 4

INDUSTRIAL MAN-POWER

APPEALS TO COMMITTEE Tiie Industrial Man-power Appeal Committee —Messrs M. W. Grantham (chairman), H. H. Gillard, and S. D. Macpherson—held a sitting yesterday to hear appeals against directions of the man-power officer (Mr E. A. Selman). Alvan Stuart Harris appealed ■ against direction to accept employment with the Kaitangata Coal Company as a trucker.— The appellant said he was a seasonal worker at the freezing works and was at present employed at McLeod Brothers.— The appellant's mother said she. was a widow and was not in good health. —Mr J. G. Henderson, of the Kaitangata Coal Company, said his company could not meet all the demands for coal. It was short of 30 truckers, and the shortage of labour was the chief cause of the drop in production.—The appeal was disallowed, the appellant to be permitted to return td the freezing works at the commencement of next season. Albert Edward Callaghan, a single man, appealed against direction to the Kaitangata Coal Company as a trucker.—The appellant, a seasonal worker at the freezing works, said he had been discharged from the army because of defective eyesight. In the off season he worked for Reid and Gray, Ltd.—Decision was reserved pending an exemination of the appellant’s - eyes. - / Patrick Tarpey, a City Corporation employee, who did not appear, appealed against direction to employment with A. and T. Burt. Ltd., as a labourer.—The man-power officer said the appellant had , formerly been employed at Burt’s, and the City Corporation had no objection to his returning there.—The appeal was disallowed. , . . Marv McNamara appealed against refusal of permission to terminate her emplw>’ment at the Seacliff Mental Hospital.—The appellant said she wished to get married—The man-power officer said he had sympathy with the appellant, but it was almost impossible to replace her. She was an experienced cook.—Decision was reserved. , , , Joan Cecilia Bresanello appealed against direction to accept employment as a warilsmaid at the Dunedin. Hospital.— The appellant said she was -at. Present employed as a shop assistant at Whltcombe and Tombs, Ltd.—Decision was reMrs F. Douglas appealed for her daughter. Zaylie Patricia Douglas, who was directed to employment at the Dunedin Hospital.—Tlie appellant, said her daughter did not keep good health and could not stand up to the work at the Hospital,—Decision was reserved pending a medical examination of the appellant s daughter. ... , Decision was also reserved in an appeal by Mrs Phyllis M. Robinson against direction to > employment as a wardsmaid at the Dunedin Hospital.