MILLIONS SENT ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 8

MILLIONS SENT ABROAD

THAT SHOULD BE SPENT AT HOME. “AVe are face to face with the fact that we are giving other nations some millions a year for goods a large proportion of which we could make ourselves,” said Mr. G. White, of Canterbury, urging upon tho Industrial Conference meeting in Auckland that it is essential that drastic efforts bo made to increase secondary industry' commensurate with the commercial position of New Zealand. “It is estimated," ho continued, "that there are untold quantities of ironsand waiting to be ebnverted into iron and steel. Our forests are full of timber waiting to be made into woodpulp. There are millions of tons of lime waiting to be made into cement. Linseed can be grown to supply all_ we need for oil. Dry and bottled fruits' need not be imported because we can grow all we require, while the possibilities of coaltar anil its by-products open out a vast possibility for large scientific industries. One could enumerate other possibilities, but these are sufficient to stress the necessity of prompt action.” A remit in the terms of Mr. AVhite’s representations was adopted.