END OF MANPOWER CONTROLS

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24913, 28 June 1946, Page 5

END OF MANPOWER CONTROLS

REVOCATION ON JUNE 30 (P.A.) WELLINGTON. June 27. “All manpower controls will end on June 30,” said the Minister of National Service (the Hon. A. Me Lagan) tonight. Industries which have remained essential undertakings to the end of June are: freezing and casing works, sawmilling, forestry and coalmining, affecting some 26,700 workers, but June 30 will mark the complete revocation of the Industrial Manpower Emergency Regulations, 1944, together with all orders and directions made under them. Some 13,000 category “A” men are now freed from manpower direction. Discussing the magnitude of the tasks achieved under the Manpower Emergency Regulations, Mr McLagan said employees in industries declared essential numbered 255,000. Manpower officers issued directions to 138,500 men and 37,600 women, and of this total of 176.100 persons, appeals were received in respect of only 6710, representing the very low figure of 3.8 per cent of the total number of directions issued. Mr McLagan paid a tribute to workers and others who co-operated in making New Zealand’s industrial mobilisation an outstanding success, and also to officers of the National Service Department and others associated with the administration of the regulations.