WAR COUNCIL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 4

WAR COUNCIL

MEETING IN WELLINGTON YESTERDAY SOUTH PACIFIC COMMANDS EXPLAINED. REPORTS FROM INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The organisation of commands in the Pacific was explained to the War Council at a meeting in Wellington yesterday. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, subsequently stated that members of the Council were also given a summary of the steps which had been taken since the last meeting to meet the defence situation in New Zealand and certain outlying territories in the Pacific.

“Reports were received from the defence and military affairs and the primary and secondary industries committees of the Council, which had met on Wednesday,” said Mr Fraser. “The Council was informed of the way in which the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and other scientific services in the Dominion had been organised to meet the necessities of defence projects. “An outline was given of the present programme of munitions manufacture in New Zealand and deliveries made of equipment from overseas. “A recommendation has been submitted by the Council to War Cabinet regarding the method of disposal of applications received from employers and employees for transfers of labour from or within essential industries. “The Council has also submitted a recommendation that certain further industries be added to the schedule of essential industries.”