OUR INDUSTRIES.
(Per Press Association.) I Christchurch, last Dight. I The report of the joint committee of the Canterbury Industrial Association and I Trades and Labor Councils appointed to consider the question of the promotion aod encouragement of local industries was J [ adopted by tho Industrial Association to- I night. It bad been previously adopted by tbe Trades and Labor Counoil. The com I mittee interviewed a large numbor of I manufacturers, rotailers, and workers in all the principal industries. The pr/ncipßl : conclusions are that local industries and i productions in aomo instances are not ]
keeping pace with the general increase of trade in the colony ; the tariff sb.ould be amended in various directions by faking off all duties on raw mvteria's used by our I manufacturers not lik ly to ho produced jn this colony, and by increasing the duty in oertatn directions to meet dumping 0 f i surplus manufactures from other countries ; that the attention of Government sbep d be drawn to tho ncoessity of oom pulsnry branding nf all New Zealand made
goods as such. The committee also make [ suggestions for carrying out the reoom- I mendations, including a proposal that the question of the formation of an industrial league should be oonsiderod open to any« body above the age of 16 years of persons pledging themselves to give preference wherever possible to looal manufactures l and productions, <
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1707, 24 March 1906, Page 2
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232OUR INDUSTRIES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1707, 24 March 1906, Page 2
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