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1943 NEW ZEALAND

NATIONAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS OF THE NATIONAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT AND OF THE INDUSTRIAL MAN-POWER DIVISION ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT UNDER THE NATIONAL SERVICE EMERGENCY REGULATIONS 1940, THE EMERGENCY RESERVE CORPS REGULATIONS 1941, AND THE INDUSTRIAL MAN-POWER EMERGENCY REGULATIONS 1942

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency

PREFACE

The attached reports set out to deal with the evolution, present organization, and work of all sections of this Department from the outbreak of war to the present time. The various aspects of the Department's activities have been so intimately inter-woven that it has seemed most inadvisable to present the reports otherwise than as a single comprehensive treatise. This has been divided into two major sections —the first being in the form of a report from the Director of National Service covering the whole of the Department's work up to date, including, however, only brief references in the appropriate places to the origins and influence of industrial man-power control, while the second section takes the form of a report from the Controller of Man-power giving an account of the full development of that side of the work. Each section is followed by a suitable statistical Appendix. This plan has the great advantage of presenting the whole account of the development of the war effort on the man-power front in a single volume and in a form particularly suitable for the use of overseas representatives and others wishing for complete and up-to-date information. It also entirely avoids a number of extremely difficult problems which would arise out of any attempt to divide into separate compartments those matters which are handled within a single section of the Department although they relate to each of its separate activities. J. S. Hunter, Director of National Service,