What is N.Z. doing? The Manpower Question

29th : the Voice of the 29th Battalion, Volume 1, Issue 10, 4 August 1943, Page 2

What is N.Z. doing?

The Manpower Question

I -11. ZEALAND Eld MADE f. 'VERY FINE CONTRAB- ! UTION TOWARDS THE ALLIED RAR EFFORT - ONE 0. ~HiGii SHE HAS SOME R.ip..,tjON TO BE PROUD. THE Dr'. ISI'JN IN AFRICA T .X PERFORMED c 1W;. cw’-'-r r'-~ T ;

J .m v 4A.TLJ oiin/ ..L.'m m>i itix'.; ; 'EAR-AGAINST ; --'l'- -- -'JA ’ NET LEI LAND ' TdTwPShl'l; Oh SERVICE’ ' 1 I?- 7 THE PACIFIC TOLANDS '■ ! THOUGH AT THE TIME OF ! ■•'IRITING NONE HAVE YET ' Gone into BATTaAM Let us hope that the negative policy of waiting for the enemy to arrive- will soon be replaced; not as some a 0 pa ron 1 1 y ■ in? g i 110 by

going nomc an;, i argotting about the war.. but by a positive; offensive programme to ■ "Lui the enemy cvcryv/herc and so finish the war th.; right-way v

J Yore e.rc altogothor J.oo<>ooo Now Zeair.nd. mon 'on active, sor vice ip various brane cos .01 the armed ; forcess Thoro arc 150,000 -.gad in fanning _ operations , 'much, of which is directly or indirectly., essential co carrying on the v;ar-> There • ’re Gj'lGO factor;/ workers, -1 though socio of tho factories .are not bound' up with war Vast quantities of 1 butter» choosome. and wool have boon exported to food tho armies of Britain,.- Im erica end even of Russia; as well as., that used in supnlyina tho armed fore s in Now Zealand itself« ovoaprieing rriigd of nenuf-nturod articles have '••iso been sent .for the Military fo forces in the Middle East. Indiaah'f the U s S.A« ' ' . THE .AiC INIL'TING AND RADIO. IN’r'' T n:r>oT'gs BARTIGLUA.R HIVE DEMONSTRATED that NLA ZExxLx’xND CAN TURN .JUT GOODS THAT ’..’ILL FAV'^ j OUXBLY CD;u''•.-■? ■NTH ARTICLES PRODUCED AHYAHEHi; ELSE. IN THU tOH-j,

nearly five time's since the early months’ X ■ the war, and was- now several million (rounds a month®; In hand grenades wo were producing 40,003 to 50,000 c. week., I

Though the war situation at the | moment looks brighter than it has I done since the war began, --.nd .tho i return none of 6000 troops from I tho Middle Ik'st night load some I to think that it is all over bur | the shouting; there arc peesibil- j idles of ■Jnplco.sey turns and twists unless the Allias ? includ- I mg Now Zealand, really poor all « their activities toward r- total i war effort* j