WAR EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1942, Page 4

WAR EFFORT

NORTHERN IRELAND’S PART. The Northern Ireland Minister of Commerce has been consulting British Ministers and Departments' about using Northern Ireland’s surplus textile industry labour in the national war effort. Some thousands of Northern Ireland men and women are already working in munitions factories in Great Britain, and the Commerce Minister’s visit seems to ensure that all able-bodied men and women in Northern Ireland are given an opportunity of making their full contribution to the war effort as far as possible in their own area. There has been a firm resolve throughout this war that no one shall be allowed to make profit out of it. Excess profits tax has throughout stood at 100 per cent, and steps have now been taken to prevent black market transactions from providing an illegitimate means of money-making. The Board of Trade has lately announced a Price of Goods (Restriction of Sale) Order which will put a stop to the abuse- of goods passing through an unnecessary number of hands, thus cans-1 ing an unjustified increase in price, although each individual trader is ableto claim that he is complying with the regulations as to his own margin of profit.