ALL MANPOWER DRECTION TO CEASE BY JULY
WELLINGTON, June 12. All the remainiug direetions under the Industrial Manpower Emergenc}' liegulations, will be cancelled at the end of June. The regulations will then be reyoked. Reporting this to the aiinual . conference of tlie New Zealand Federation of Labour, the retiring prCsident, Hon. A. McLagan, who held the wartime portfolio of Minister of Industrial Miinpower, gave details of the progre'ssive removal of emergency contr.ols imposed 011 industrial manpower. Mr. McLagan said that by the end. of Mai Ji,, Cxcept for a few cases of special emergency, new direetions liad ceased to be issued. Current direetions had been cancelled except in respoct of industries remaining essential and of category . A men lieid on appeal during the war years. Mr. McLagan Said the Government had carried out a policy of the speediest possible' relaxations as eariy as June, 1913, oniy a few weeks after the suricnder of Gerniany. Iu savvmilling and coal mining the need For sustained production coiitinued to be so urgent and vital that the rentention of declaratious of essentiality until the end of June, L946, could not be avoided without scnous'elfects uiion the country as a wholc.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 June 1946, Page 7
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