NEW INDUSTRIES
DOMINION'S POSSIBILITIES AUCKLAND BUSINESSMAN'S OPINION
New industries should be established in New Zealand which would make the greatest possible use of our own raw materials, said the Secretary of the Auckland Manufacturers Association, Mr A. F. T. Chorlton in an address to the Auckland Ci'editmens Club. In view of the dangers which threatened our markets for primary production in the post war period, it. was essential, the speaker said, to give attention now to industries which would utilise our farm production to the greatest extent possible.. Dairy farming interests for instance should concern themselves with industries for the production of vitimanised dried and condensed milk, sugar of milk and casein for use as gl»e, as distemper and as a plastic. AVool producers should support industries for the greatest possible utilisation of wool in New Zealand in woven jwaterials, matting felts, carpets, lanolinc. and as a plastic filler. Meat producers .should support dehydrated research and also tanr ning and leather industries.
Substitute crops should also be kept under ' consideration and research should be. conducted into the production from soya beans., artichokes, sugar beet and lla.v of dextrine and starch, sugar cellulose, plastic materials and industrial oils. Cellulose' is obtainable from most plant products and may be used for moulded articles, films, cellophane, lacquers., explosives and artificial silk.. Linen flax is an example of a new industry. In time, all our cow covers, stack covers and canvas requirements will be made in New Zealand.
Surely the best possible market for New Zealand primary production, and one which was steady, controllable and least susceptible to world fluctuation was an internal market, said the speaker. Farmers could secure this market in one way only —by supporting the growth of internal population by thcx maintenance and expansion of manufacturing industries and particularly those absorbing their own raw materials.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 32, 10 December 1943, Page 5
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305NEW INDUSTRIES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 32, 10 December 1943, Page 5
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