WELLINGTON.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2208, 4 June 1908, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

ISpec/al to “Times”) WELLINGTON, 'June 3. THE WEATHER. The weather has been delightfully fine, with .an unusually high barometer, and there was a great exodus of' holiday-makers, from, the citv. A CONSCIENCE MATTER. An ex-volunteer who states that he .has recently “found religion,” lias, written to an officer of the Wellington City Rifles as follows: “Several years ago when I was in your company attending class-firing, etc., I took several packets of ammunition at different times. ‘ Please find enclosed a sum . which will more than pay for the same. Aly reason for doing this is that having got right with God I must get- -right with man.” A PAYING CONCERN. The City Council hag made a profit of £66,000 in eight months- from the sale of electricity for light and energy. The plant which produced tins -result was eight months ago in the hands of ix private company, and was -acquired at a cost of £150,000. ■ the next muuicipalition will probably be the ■ acquisition of. the City Gas Works. MARRIAGE. The Hon. John .Rigg, M.L.C., was mamed to-day to Aliss Pauline Aukell, only daughter of a well-known Alasterton settler. r LOCAL INDUSTRIES WEEK. Local industries week has' “caught on,” and the display of New Zealand manufactures in, the principal shop windows is ,a highly creditable one. As much as £lO lias been given fox* 'm ln t! vs fI.V.. certain manufacturers, flm Hon. Air. Ate Nab makes un appeal to the public to give- to Hie manufacturers and that large section oi producers outside tho growers of locust line that same control over the markets of this Dominion that <>rowers of food stuffs themselves enn'ov. 1 i<??1 confident,” lie said to a reporter, “that if our manufactures were, once able to establish tliemselves m When- own local- markets it would bo a. step in their development cowards securing ;l . footing -an the markets of the Old World, thus increasing the value of our exports and products.of our wealth. 1 huov w hat will be saxdin rep; l v tliut may apply to primary industries of this country, and that manufactures must follow at a considerable distance. but mv answer to that is that our plionominal development in pro-, auction and export of foodstuffs has bean along those lines where a. very arge portion of manufactures lias to be used to the raw material. For instance, butter necessitates careful handling and skilled treatment througli its manufactured stages, and the ' export ot that article has increased P,‘V? nt - 1 hen cheese, where a i ,ke fcl y" F required in its manufacture, has increased 250 per cent, those two together produce great wealth to the country, audio them, we have complete control of the local market and wo have almost secured - control of the world’s market. From day to day these manufacturers that « e associated with foodstuffs are on o tside t:r f l + S l'’ + W ' ilu manufacturers o -ir. ° f <sl ? ss aro languishing, eoual ti d slo "'! n g -i development mintin' Ti development of tile Domimon. That should not bo; so it ; t] ii 1 ,L ’ B 1 )1& themselves t 0 say '< tii t lat c0,,11 y 1 of the local marf'w.L b A e g,ve ” to tho I° C, >l mauut act ill c. A movement such as this '’.-' dircetnig public attention to what can be done, will probably enable the manufacturers to get the footing they want. I would like to see the NowZealander feeb the same pride in tlio manufactures of New Zealand "s he foodstuffs of his country; lnanitost tlie same enthusiasm for its further development as is being done by the farmer, and give to his m-anu-mar -!.+ S tl f )U 9 llo l'°ly Of tills ; i ro l • afc y 10 h - as Sfyen to the farmer. It is the victorious career <>i ven by his monopoly at home that 'has' given heart to the producer of our foodstuffs and made him a strong • competitor wherever lie is to be found, and that same heart and local triumph must be given to our local manufacturers before they cm oust the imported article, and carry the war of competition into other countries Jliu same support given to the uen’ eral manufacturer as to the -nowe,oi foodstuffs will help to renrotfuce in tl.e former the world-wide success U e°hmT”’ aCCOmpal,ied tlle effo ' rts of