NATIONAL SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1917, Page 2

NATIONAL SERVICE.

BRITISH" DIRECTOR. MR. NEVILLE CHA'MBERLAIN. Mr. Chamberlain's task will be to schedule tho industries of the country into: Essential, will get all tho labor and material they need. Loss-essential, will be "rationed" as to labor and material. Non-essential, will apparently get no labor or material.

All home food production and all work coin ected with shipping and the like will be essential industries. Workers set free from non-essential industries will go to the essential ones, along with exempted nun and "war work volunteers," so as to release where possible workers in the essential industries who will prove useful in the Army. The industrial army, like that in the field and like munitioners, will have pay, separation and other allowances. Mr. Lloyd George also said that the first call will be for volunteers for national work, but if that fails the Cabinet will not hesitate to ask for compulsion.

Mr. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, the new Director-General of National Service, is forty-seven years of age, the st.-iml son of the late Mr. Joseph Cliainb'.vlain. While Mr. Austen Chamberlain was l.!-.t ■- ■ I '■ r polities . t. Neville Uiar.ibeilain lias followed his father's early euu-e-r j.i business and municipal activilv. He is a director of the Birmingham Small Arms Company and other firm*. As Lord Mayor of Birmingham he is ... '.'■■■'' ''-, ', ...';in, and in that.capacity he lira I'led a i-cl.cm.i fo. .'•" proto': tiou of the Midlands after the lirst ai. raid and promoted a municipal savings bank. He is a worker on the Munitions Committee, which hiw done so much to augment the war output of Birmingham.

In the scheme for labor mobilisation \vh:ch Mr. Lloyd George outlined to the Labor Party before they decided to join tin- Government he mentioned the age limits as 10 to 00. All between those ages will be invited to volunteer for necessary war work. Women as well as men are to be given the opportunity of (Icing this. A register will he opened at lb: Labor Exchanges in every town to: the purpose of enrolment.