INDUSTRIAL PLANNING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 72, 12 April 1937, Page 8

INDUSTRIAL PLANNING

-Press Assoeiation.)

Minister's Plea for Co-opera-tion PROBLEMS IN NEW ZEALAND

(By Telegraph

WANGANUI, Last Night. "I consider that the foundations for industrial planning which have been made in New Zealand to be more than the equal of any other country in the world," stated Hon. D. G. Sullivan in reference to the establishment of the Bureau of Industry under the Industrial Efficiency Act. "The fact that the most highly industrialised countries are experimenting with industrial planning or integration suggests that it responds to a real need created by modern conditions in industry," he continued. "There is no doubt that in the public interest such a need exists in New Zealand to-day. •' 'The Government has set jip a Bureau of Industry for the purpose of planning and assistihg industry and I desire to make a special appeai for the co-operation of individual and collecti've business units with the Bureau in its work. I do not mean merely that businesses shall express a desire to cooperate, but that industries should tako definite steps to form ccntral organisations with which the Bureau can consult in regard to the problems with which the industry 4s concerned." The Minister stated that- if such organisations were set up it would greatly facilitate the work of the Bureau. "And what is even more important, the industry will then be able to speak with one voice to reconcile any differences which may exist and then put forward opinions to the Bureau or the Government which are, in effect, the voice of the whole industry. 1 ■ realise that industrial planning is in the experimental stage in New Zealand as J well as elsewhere, and that we must consequently proceed cautiously. Tho real problems involved ara coming to lignt." The Minister was confident. that if the co-operation he appealed for was forthcoming, those problems would be solved.