REGIONAL BOARDS TO ASSIST PEACE-TIME RECONVERSION
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TE Government has decided, as
_ part of its plans for the reconversion “I industry to peace-time requirements, to retain the Regional Boards which a ere formed during the war to ensure that the best use was made of all pro.suctive resources in respect of munitions. Regional offices were established and representatives of the Supply Departments acted as links between local industry and headquarters in London.
In their present form, the Regional Boards and the National Production Advisory Council were set up in July, f944. Responsibility for their work was exercised by the Minister of Production, whose Regional Controllers have been the chairmen of the Boards.
Hitherto, the functions of these Boards have been chiefly concerned with the production of munitions, and their interest has, consequently, been mainly in the engineering and allied industries, whilSt more recently they have been concerned with the transition from munition g manufacture to production for civilian needs. With the end of the Ministry of Production, general , responsibility for the Regional Boards has now passed to the Board of Trade..
The Boards will, in future, exercise their activity over the whole field of productive industry. Under the new constitution, they have been renamed " Regional Boards for Industry." Each will consist of an impartial chairman, together with three representatives each of employers and trade'
unions, and the senior a representatives' Of the Board of Trade, Admiralty, Ministries of Supply and Aircraft Production, Labour, War Transport, Fuel and Power, Food. Works and Town and Country Planning, and, in Scotland, the Scottish Office. -They will keep local industry advised of Government policy.