INDUSTRIES COMMITTEE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 130, 26 February 1919, Page 4

INDUSTRIES COMMITTEE

EVIDENCE AT INVERCARGILL.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Invercargill, February. 15. it the Industries Committee to-day J T. Carswell gave evidence with regard to the flax industry, urging the utilisation of swamp wastes for ilax, and advocated the use of tow for the manufacture of cornsacks. He suggested that the Government should offer a bonus for the first thousand tacks so made, and put a small duty on sacks. . G W Edwards said the strappings ■from Has made good feed for cattle, and iieinp waste could 'provide alcohol. A E. Bath protested against the decrease in the protection of the motor body-building industry by alterations m Albert Hall suggested the appointment of an inventions board, with the State acting as patents, agent. . dM{(!li - Wifliam Halliday urged the establishment of a fleet of State ships and Goveminent lime kilns. _ T D. A. Moffett advocated a Government board of research. - Dr D -\. Hensen suggested that the universities should talv« over r « work to aid industries. He al ojsad a nnuer on the production of beet sugar. 1 AW Rodger and W, Maclndoe urged the value-of the Ohai coalfields, and need of more encouragement. D. Henehv advanced claims for the restoration of shipping .to the Bluft. Hβ said that the industrial activity oi the Evince had been retard by he suspension of direct feats to the Bluff. Hβ Milk' Products, asked for a protective hriff on condensed milk and the prohibition of foreign companies form starthis i]i the Dominion. In ten years Nestie's had reduced the price fr Australia om °2s a case to Us., and knocked Tsorne of Hβ competitors. The ( price now was 325. a case. Australian condensed milk paid 26 per cent duy_on entering the Dominion, but the *.e»-4e.i-land production entering Australia paid 40 to 44 per cent.