A DOMINION BRAND.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 17

A DOMINION BRAND.

TO TUB EDITOR OF THE PBE3S Sir, —I see in Saturday's Press that the manufacturers of New Zealand are offering substantial prizes for design* o£ a trade mark to brand New Zealand goods. But will the manufacturers buy these goods if they are branded? We have glaring evidence here in New Zealand that they will not do so; for all over the North Island you will see them buying products grown in New Zealand by Chinese and Hindu labour, and they can all see at a glance that they are not New Zealand, without any brands. 1 should say there are more Chinese and Hindus in this country than there are unemployed. The manufacturers also ask what we are going to do with our boys and girls when they leave school. Now, working in a fruit shop is a real good job for a New Zealand born _ and bred girl or boy, as the work is light, and would suit them until they had developed enough to stand harder work ahead. What we want to do is to buy New Zealand products, grown, manufactured, and sold by New Zealaj.ders, and get it into our heads, that if we cannot get the article we want in our own town, then get it in our country; if unprocurable, then get it from our best customer. If they have not got it, we can easily do without. I don't think it necessary to brand a New Zealander to show that he is not a foreigner. When people employ foreigners thev let their own kith and kin get in the unemployed ranks. That is one reason why we have to pay 30s a year.—Yours, etc., NEW ZEALAND-MADE. November 21st, 1930.

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