THE COMMONWEALTH.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16259, 9 July 1918, Page 8

THE COMMONWEALTH.

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(Received July bth, 10.36 p.m.) SiiUNii;!, juiy 8.

The president of the Farmers and Settlers' Conference, addie&sing the delegates, said that primary industries were faced with enormous diiiiculties. The position into which they were drifting must be felt by every member of the community. The wheat area of New South Wales had decreased by at least 33 per cent., and there was practically not enough fat meat to stoppiy local requirements. MELBOURNE, July ,8. The Government is appealing for a hundred doctors for service at the front-.

| One immediate effect of the war is to set New Zealand manufacturers thinking out ways of supp.ymg articies for the supply of which wo previously depended on foreign countries (remarks the Dunedin "fc>tar") Until about "three years ago practically all the rennet used in tlio Dominion came from 'Denmark; now we are relying laigely t on what is prepared and put up in Hawke's Bay. Glycerine for jelly-mak-ing and other purposes is another ar- . tide in regard to which we are becoming independent of imports, for a Can- • terbury firm are now placing on the ; market supplies that previously came from Franco and Germany. The satisfactory feature about these new lines and others that could bo mentioned is that consumers are not making hostile | comparisons about quality as between the goods that the foreigners used to give us and the goods now made in New Zealand. The North seems to be alive to the necessity now created for starting new industries. Otago may ba expccted to also sec the opportunity before long.