NEW REGULATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25514, 19 April 1944, Page 6

NEW REGULATION

ENGAGEMENT OF LABOUR POSITION OF NON-ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES Employers in both essential and nonessential industries are now required to obtain the permission of the district manpower officer to engage labour. This is the effect of the Employment Restriction Order No. 4, which came into operation on April 3, and cancels Restriction Orders Nos. 2 and 3.

Classes of employment excluded from the restrictions imposed by this order are farming, including orchards and general farm work; market gardening; the employment of a midwite, maternity nurse, or professional nurse for the sick and any institution under the control of a hospital board or a private or mental hospital; coalmining; employment in any capacity on any ship, or on any wharf in connection with the loading or unloading of vessels, and employment on casual work for a period not exceeding three consecutive days. The general effect of this order will be to give the district man-power officer a wider control of tire surplus labour available, and will enable its diversion to industries of the highest priority in the essential group, said the district manpower officer, Mr J. H. Flowers, yesterday The scope of the order in so far as the Dunedin man-power district is concerned, covers the Dunedin citv area, and the boroughs of Green Island, Port Chalmers, St. Kilda, West Harbour, Milton and Mosgiel. Except with the prior consent in writing of a district man-power officer, no employer to whom this order applies may engage any worker in any of the specified areas, otherwise than in the exempted employments already mentioned.