NEED FOR MORE MAN-POWER

Southland Times, Issue 24433, 13 May 1941, Page 7

NEED FOR MORE MAN-POWER

“Vigilance” writes: In your issue of May 8 I noticed that Professor Riddet, Director of the Dairy Research Institute, said it must be recognized that the production of foodstuffs was not nearly as important as 12 months ago. Man-power was more important now, and industry must make arrangements to relieve all possible types of manpower for the armed forces. In the same issue we find that great statesman and soldier, the Right Hon. Gordon Coates, advocating women cooks in the military camps. He had this to say: “We must overhaul our system so that every man will be available as and when required.” Now, sir, I think all thinkers and patriots will agree with what these two men have said. The only way I can see of bringing about this reform is to form immediately a coalition Government which would have the right to speak for the whole of the people in this Dominion. The first duty of the coalition Government would be to do away with the appeal boards; then every physically fit man would have to go when his turn came. In my opinion, no man is indispensable on the home front if he is needed for war service. So let us have done with our appeal boards, which are fast deteriorating into “funk holes.”