INDUSTRIAL MAN-POWER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25851, 23 May 1945, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL MAN-POWER

SITTING OF COMMITTEE The Industrial Man-power Appeal Committee—Messrs M. W. Grantham (chairman), H. H. Gillard, and A. Mcßae—held a sitting yesterday when eight appeals against directions or decisions of the district man-power officer (Mr S. C. Bingham) were heard. A statement that the normal staff of 27 females had been reduced to 16 was made by Mr J. C. St. George, accountant of the Bank of New Zealand, when appealing for Miss Iris Isobel Duff, a ledger posting clerk, who had been directed to employment at the Roslyn Woollen Mills. Mr St. George said that the numbers on the Staff were the lowest they had been since the commencement of the war. The girls, he said, had done an excellent job while so many men had been serving with the forces.—r Miss Duff also appealed on the grounds that she wished to sit Government examinations in typing and shorthand, and also on the grounds of health.—Decision was reserved pending a medical examination.

Miss M. E. Giles appealed on domestic grounds and the Otago Farmers’ Co-op. Association, Ltd., appealed on the grounds of staff shortage against a direction that Miss Giles should accept employment at the Roslyn Woollen Mills.—Decision was reserved.

Because he wished to accept employment on a sawmill on the West Coast, George Ferguson Smith .appealed against refusal of permission to terminate his' employment with Messrs McDonald and Miller.— The appeal was disallowed. Cook, Lemon • and Cook (Mr I. E. Fitchett) appealed against refusal of permission to engage the services of Mrs M. Wheeler, and an appeal was also lodged by A. Wheeler (Mr H. A. Dowling) against a direction that Mrs M. Wheeler should accept employment at the Roslyn Woollen Mills.—The appeals were adjourned. Adams Bros. (Mr H. S. Adams) appealed against a direction that Miss I. M. Stoddart, a shorthand-typist, should accept employment at the Mosgiel Woollen Mills.—The appeal was allowed.

On grounds of public interest, undue hardship, and his wish to take up a position on a dairy farm in the Waikato district, N. R. Rusbatch (Mr I. B. Stevenson), a surfaceman, appealed against refusal of permission to terminate his employment with the New Zealand Railways.—The appeal was disallowed.

Gerald George Scott, aged 20, appealed against refusal of permission to terminate his employment with J. W. Faulkner. Ltd., where he is engaged in making wire mattresses. He appealed because he considered the work suitable for a boy, and the wage of £2 5s lid net was insufficient to live on.—The appeal was allowed, the appellant to terminate his employment on Friday and to report to the man-power officer for direction into essential employment.

An adjourned appeal by Mrs C. Davis against direction to employment at the Roslyn Woollen Mills was re-heard.—The appeal was disallowed, Mrs Davis to report at the mill on Monday.