ESSENTIAL AND NONESSENTIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1917, Page 4

ESSENTIAL AND NONESSENTIAL.

INDUSTRIES CLASSIFIED. BY EFFICIENCY BOARDS By Telegraph-Press Association Wellington, Last Nigtit. The National Efficiency Board has had fa hand for some time the. toik of classic fying industries according to their importance, the object being to give tba Government and the Military ServiceHoards some indication as to which in* dustries are essential. The board has actually classified industries and occupations into four classes—A, most essential; B, essential; C,' partially essential; D, non essential. Cabinet has apv proved A and B. The lists aro:— N

Agriculture, cattlo raising, coal mining, dairy factories, dairy farming, doctors, (medical students in the first, second, and possibly third years not considered essential), freezing works,, railways, scheelite mining, sheep raising, shipping* steamship repair work. In a note on list A, the board maketf the following explanation:—"The industries and occupations included under thijj heading are deemed to be of primary importance, but the classification must not' be read as including every man employed therein. It may be that many of thostf now employed can be replaced, but no', person should be removed whose removal! would imperil the successful ance of the industry or occupation." B. Agricultural implemont making, am* munition making, bakjng, boarding deV partment of hotels, boarding houses, boilor repairing, bootmaking, butchering; dentists, electrical power stations, en 3 gine driving in "essential industries, far* riers' work and bheksmithing, fellmow gery, fruit growing, fruit preserving, gas manufacture, gold minibg, manure manm facture (including lime for agriculture), meat preserving, nurserymen and gardening for .commercial purposes, qualified pharmaceutical chemists, saddlery and harness making, sugar refining, woollen manufacture. Note to B runs:—"lndustries under this heading are regarded as essential second only in' importance to those in class A. In this classification it may be found that a very uiuch larger percentage of men can be released for military service than may be possible in class A, but no person should be removed whose removal would imperil the successful maintenance of the industry or occupaV tion." .