MEN FOR ESSENTIAL INDUSTRIES
(P.A.) Wellington, March 17. Approximately 20,000 men in New Zealand who have been called up for service with the Armed Forces and medically graded three or four are to be interviewed by officers of the Employment Division of the National Service Department, who determine whether they shall be transferred to essential industries. The work of interviewing the men. has already begun. When this class of men has been dealt with attention is to given to men between 46 and 50, ano to women between 20 and 21. The men are not to be taken out of essential industries for direction into others, but those in non-essential occupations are to be placed in employment more useful t(, the country’s war work. The decisions of the department’s officers are subject to review or appeal by new indust up I manpower commil l ees throughout *he Dominion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 65, 18 March 1942, Page 5
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