USING MANPOWER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 22 November 1939, Page 14

USING MANPOWER

ADVISORY COUNCIL NEW ZEALAND EXPERTS RESERVED CALLINGS PI .AN OF CERTIFICATES (Pur Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The personnel of the central advisory council appointed by the Government to assist and advise the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webb, in connection with the most efficient utilisation of the Dominion's man-power was announced last evening. The council held its first meeting last week. A statement was issued by Mr. Webb expressing satisfaction With the whole-hearted co-operation of the members 'appointed and his gratification that the personnel consisted of men regarded in their own spheres as possessing outstanding knowledge and experience of the Dominion’s primary and secondary industries and problems associated therewith. It was revealed by the Minister that more than 600 who had enlisted in the Special Force had not been accepted in the meantime because they were in reserved occupations. Such men were to receive a suitable certificate. The personnel of the council is the Minister of Man-power, the Hon. P. C. Webb; representing the Primary Production Council, Messrs W. Mulholland or H. M. Christie, and J. Roberts or F. P. Walsh; representing tire Factory Production Council, Messrs. R. O'Shea and Adam Black; representing the Industrial Emergency Council, Messrs. W. Marshall or T. O. Bishop and R. Eddy; representing the armed forces, the Adjutant-General, Colonel O. 11. Mead.