MAN-POWER CONTROL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26065, 31 January 1946, Page 4

MAN-POWER CONTROL

REVOCATION OF ORDERS FURTHER UST THIS WEEK (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 30. “ This week’s Gazette will announce the revocation of the remainder of the declarations of essentiality still operating, with the exception of those relating to the industries of coal mining, dairy factories, freezing works, hospitals and prisons, sawmilling and tramways, and some small industries subsidiary to these,” said the Minister of Industrial Man-power, Mr A. McLagan, to-night. The more important of the declarations being revoked are the brick and tile works, building, canvas, cement, clothing, concrete products, engineering, fertilisers, fire boards, flour milling, footwear, furniture. Government services—including the Public Works Department, the Rehabilitation Department. the Price Tribunal, and the second division of the Railways De-partment-laundries, main highways, rubber, sack manufacture, tanneries, timber merchants, woollen mills, hosiery mills and knitting factories. “In regard to the declarations being retained for the present, those covering hospitals and prisons will be lifted on February 28, tramways on March 9. and the others probably on March 31.” Mr McLagan added.