FACTORY PRODUCTION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 4 September 1939, Page 3

FACTORY PRODUCTION

ESSENTIAL ARTICLES CO NS OR V TNG M A TER TAGS (Ter Press Association.) WELLINGTON., this day. , A necessary regulation and control of factory production, where the public is concerned, is provided, in the Factory-' Emergency Regulations issued by the Minister of Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan. "Manufacturers will be aware,” said the Minister, “of many difficulties which may arise, not only in supplying many essential requirements for defence purposes, but also in providing the needs of the civil population without interruption and in maintaining a continuity of employment. Many of the problems which may be involved will be related to those materials vital for factory production which -perforce have to be imported from overseas countries. “Under certain conditions which may develop it would be necessary in the public interest for some classes of materials to be conserved to the utmost degree, with additional possibilities of devising the use of alternative materials or substitutes from domestic sources. The regulations invest the factory controller, acting under special or general direction from the Minister of Supply, with the necessary powers of control of production according to the necessity of public interest and to direct the use or substitution oi materials. "The factory controller also is given powers to enable him to obtain, full information concerning stocks of materials,” the Minister states. “The emergency powers contained in the regulations will only be put into force in those instances for which such action is vital to the needs of the country.” The -Minister states that he is confident that manufacturers, together with all those persons engaged In factory production, will rally to the aid of the Government and country with their support, so that where control is necessary it will be effected promptly and smoothly for the benefit of the whole nation,”