LAUNDRY WORK
DECLARED TO BE ESSENTIAL. EXCEPT IN REGARD TO CHINESE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Commercial laundry factories and dry cleaning and dyeing works, except those owned and operated by Chinese, are declared essential industries by a notice gazetted last evening. The Minister of Industrial Manpower, Mr McLagan, stated that war conditions had greatly increased the work of these concerns. They were now handling the laundry and dry cleaning for the various camps, depots, and stations of the Armed Services, private work for men of the armed forces, and work for many . married women who were employed in essential war industries. In addition, many public and all private hospitals, hotels, restaurants, public institutions, invalids, aged people, and flat-dwellers depended entirely on these establishments to do their washing and dry cleaning. It was for the purpose ot ensuring that these services were maintained that they had been e dared essential. The declaration does not apply collection depots or to the road transport sections of the laundries.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1942, Page 2
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