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316. The first list of revocations appeared in the New Zealand Gazette of 30tli June, 1945, and contained the names of 184 undertakings. By YJ Day (15th August, 1945) undertakings employing approximately 10,000 workers had been freed from control by revocation of declarations of essentiality. 317. Upon the cessation of hostilities with Japan the process of cancelling declarations of essentiality accelerated, particularly in respect of those industries affected by the ending of war contracts, those likely to receive the early benefit of men returning from the Services, and those in which the man-power position had otherwise become easier. By consultations with employers' associations, unions, Man-power Utilization Committees and Councils, and Controllers, the Department maintained its finger on the pulse of industry and was thereby able to continue the process of revocation at a maximum pace without proceeding so fast as to cause undue embarrassment to industry. 318. The following schedule shows the progressive steps by which the major revocations were effected between YJ Day and 31st March, 1946 : 30th August, 1945 The Public Service. 21st September, 1945 Airways. New Zealand University and affiliated colleges. Aircraft-manufacture. Pastrycook establishments. Boot and shoe repairing. Perambulator and wickerwork. Cardboard cartons and containers. Refrigeration engineering. Cycle making and repairing. Reserve Bank. Education Board Staff. Retail-butchers' shops. Engineering. Servicing of radio sets. Glass cutting and bevelling. Ship building and repairing. Motor garages. Shipping companies' shore staffs. Motor-body builders. Miscellaneous. The total number of workers affected up to 21st September, 1945, was 64,800. 15th November, 1945 — Biscuit-factories. Rabbit Boards. Canning and preserving. Road transport. Iron and steel stores. Saddlery trade. Metal-quarries. Scale-manufacture. Oil companies. Soapworks. The total number of workers affected to 15th November, 1945, was 89,600. 6th December, 1945—Abattoirs. Paper-mills. Boiling down and manures. Retail distribution of coal. Butter and cheese cool-stores. Retail distribution of milk. Fellmongery. Skins and hides. Flaxmills (phormium). Teaching. Hospital Boards (12). Wooden-box making. Limeworks. * Woolscouring. The total number of workers affected up to 6th December, 1945, was 109,000. 31st December, 1945 Post and Telegraph Department (Second Division). 31st January, 1946 Brick and tile works. Hydro-electric construction. Building. Laundries. Cement-works. Plumbing trade. Concrete products. Public-works undertakings. Dehydration plants. Railways (Second Division). Electric-power production and supply. Rubber manufacture and retreading. Electrical trade. Sack manufacture and reconditioning. Fertilizer-works. Serpentine-rock quarrying. Flourmills. Sugar-refining. Fire Boards. Tanneries. Footwear-manufacture. Timber-yards and joinery-factories. Furniture-manufacture. Tobacco-manufacture. Gas-manufacture. Watsr-supply, sanitation, and drainage. Harbour Boards. Woollen-mills. Hotels and restaurants. Miscellaneous. Hosiery and knitting mills. The total number of workers affected to the end of January, 1946, was 207,500.

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