EMPLOYMENT TRENDS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. “Since August 15, 1945. 85,000 men and women have been released from the armed forces out of 94,000 serving when Japan capitulated,” said the Minister of National Employment, Mr McLagan, in a review of employment trends on the anniversary of V-J Day. The immediate impact of demobilisation, Mr McLagan said, had been offset by many deferred retirements from industry and by the upward surge of seasonal activity during the first six months of the process, and also by the gradual process of the troops’ return from distant war zones.
Mr McLagan said that reconversion had proceeded more.smoothly in New Zealand than in any other country from which information was available, and as the Dominion entered the second year of peace the outlook was for the same high level of employment to continue. Housing in congested centres and later immigration would help to ease the labour shortage in due course.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26232, 16 August 1946, Page 4
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