MR. SAVAGES VISITS TO FACTORIES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 12

MR. SAVAGES VISITS TO FACTORIES

Auckland Programme Concluded GOAL OF INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 24. Concluding a three-day programme of visits to Auckland factories, as part of his campaign for stimulating local industry, the Brime Minister, Mr. Savage, was today shown over four premises where a wide variety of articles are made. He was accompanied by the Minister of Industries and Commerce. Mr. Sullivan, members of Parliament, and departmental, representatives, officers of the Auckland Manufacturers Association, and others. Brief addresses were given by Mr. .Savage to the assembled staffs at each of the four factories visited. The Prime Minister wus accorded a most enthusiastic reception wherever he went, being cheered and surrounded by men and women eager to shake hands. r , . , “We want to see New Zealand expand, and the only way to do that is to expand in the workshop, Mi. Savage said. “This Government has set out plans for building a nation in New Zealand and expanding industry. Though some people ridiculed the scheme, Mr. Savage said, he was confident people in industry were behind it. The Government wanted to see expanding production and expanding incomes, and those who wanted to help him the Government and the whole country would do more than ever before. They could take his word for it that their incomes would be greater than ever before, and their conditions of labour better. “In New Zealand you will see some of the bast products turned out on the earth’s surface anywhere,” Mr. Savage said.

“A Bloodless Revolution.”

“Now then,” he aetded amid laughter. “I am thinking about a bloodless revolution taking .place in industry, not only in New Zealand, but throughout the world, and to the extent that we can make that peaceful and sive we are going to succeed.” The Prime Minister said in another address that he wished to remove any doubts that might exist as to the future. The Government wanted progress to be made, and 1 lie could see no stopping-place. “As far as it is in the hands of the Government to assist you in your great work, it is going to be done,” he said, “but your incomes do not come from the Government; they come from industry, and before anything can come from industry, work must go into it.” Similar lines were followed by Mr. Savage when speaking to other gatherings of men and women in the afternoon. He repeated his assurance that the incomes of those concerned in industry would grow as production a “When industry stops the heart of a nation ceases to beat,” Mr. Savage said, in addressing the employees of a radio firm. He deplored the fact that so many of the best brains of New Zealand'had in the past gone overseas because there was not adequate scope for them in the Dominion, and said that every effort must be made to keep this asset. It was all very well to send men abroad as representatives or to approve of the departure of men whose ability was so great that it could help the world, but in other cases outstanding men and women of the day should be encouraged to remain in their own country.