FOUR MORE FACTORIES INSPECTED

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 10

FOUR MORE FACTORIES INSPECTED

Mr. Savage In Auckland

RAW MATERIAL FOR LOCAL INDUSTRY ASSURED By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 23. The Prime Minister, .Mr. Savage, in furtherance of his aim for increasing local industry, inspected four more factories in Auckland today. He was accompanied by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr. Sullivan, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Parry, members of Parliament and others. Mr. Savage will visit four other factories tomorrow. “Nothing is goipg to come into this country to act against the interests of those building industry here,” said the Prime Minister, in addressing the principals and staff of the Australian Glass Manufacturers’ Co., Ltd., in Penrose. An assurance that raw material would be available for the carrying on of local industry was given by Mr. Savage. He said that for the future he could not say exactly what the Government would do next to protect given industries. “I want to see those doing work getting the benefit of whatever increased production there is,” he continued. “Unless increased production is reflected in the incomes of all concerned, we are not doing our job. Everything I can do to make your conditions of life better is going to be done and I am going to apologize to no one for saying that.”

Mr. Sullivan, in a brief address, said that never before in New Zealand or in any other country had a Prime Minister gone into industries and factories, gathered the staff and spoken to them on the importance of industry as Mr. Savage had done. The Government was depending upon the success of the workers in increasing production. A tribute to women in industry was paid by Air. Savage when he spoke at the Otahuhu railway workshops. He said women could tend a machine as well as men and wpmen had a full part to play in the campaign of building the nation.

Mr. Savage received enthusiastic receptions everywhere. Repeated cheers greeted the official party on its arrival at the Otahuhu railyaw workshops where the 1700 employees turned out in force to greet the Prime Minister, who was escorted from his car to the dais by a massed party of workmen.