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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1942, Page 4

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PLANNED IN AUSTRALIA FROM NON-ESSENTIAL WORK TO WAR ACTIVITIES. LARGE NUMBERS OF MEN AND WOMEN AFFECTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m. SYDNEY This Day. The Federal authorities plan to divert another 2CO,CIJO men and women from non-essential work to war activities between next January and the end of June, says the “Telegraph.” This will mean a total transfer of about 500,000 workers to war activities this financial year. About half of the 200,000 workers will probably be women. Of the 318,000 workers being diverted between now and the encl of December, only 40.000 will be women. The Government it is reported, considers that by the end of next June it will have gone as far as it can in diverting men ana women to war work. Australia . will then have slightly more than a million men and women working full time in the services and in war industries. The Government proposes, it is reported, that the production of war materials after June should be increased by methods other than finding more labour. These methods include a better distribution of raw materials, an improvement in management and the implementation of more scientific methods of shift-working. Lack of extra men for the three fighting services will be compensated for under this plan by increasing mechanical striking power.