DIRECTIONS OF MANPOWER

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24901, 14 June 1946, Page 4

DIRECTIONS OF MANPOWER

» REVOCATION THIS MONTH (P.A.> WELLINGTON, June 13. All remaining directions under the Industrial Manpower Emergency Regulations will be cancelled at the end of June, when the regulations will be revoked. Reporting this to the annual ence of the Ne.w Zealand Federation of Labour, the retiring president (the Hon, A, McLagan), who held the wartime portfolio of Minister of Industrial Manpower, gave details s of the progressive removal of the emergency controls imposed on industrial manpower, Mr McLagan said that by the end of March, except for a few cases of special emergency, new directions were not issued. Current directions had been cancelled except in respect of industries remaining essential and of category A men held on appeal during the war years, Mr McLagan said the Government had carried out a policy of the speediest possible relaxations as early as June, 1943. only a few weeks after the surrender of Germany. In sawmilling and coalmining the need for sustained production continued to be so urgent and vital that the retention of the declarations of essentiality until the end of June. 1946, could not be avoided without serious effects upon the country as a whole.