The Hokitika Guardian MONDAY, JULY 10th, 1922. SECONDART INDUSTIUBS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1922, Page 2

The Hokitika Guardian MONDAY, JULY 10th, 1922. SECONDART INDUSTIUBS.

Thu importance of the Dominion’s secondary industries was emphasised by the president of the Auckland Industrial Association, Mr J. A. C. Allum, in his remarks at the opening of the Auckland Winter Show. He urged that the public should purchase New Zea-land-made goods and thus support the country that supported them. New Zealand’s primary industries, said Mr Allum, had already made a name fur themselves, and could hold their own against any country in the world. He referred to the up-to-date character of the dairy factories and said that our secondary industries were developing in a highly satisfactory manner. Many < f our manufactures, suoli as blankets, rugs, tweed, hoots and shoes, were fully equal to, and in many cases better than could ho produced in any eoeiitry. Attention was drawn by the spciker to the relation of the output of the purely se:oii(lnry industries to the p,imary industries. Th ( . total products of main primary industries, via,, meat freezing and dairying, for the year ended March 31. 1921, were valued at £32,671,149, or 39 per cent, of the total production in New Zealand, while the products of the remaining industries for tile same year were valued at £49,802,420 or 61 jer cent of the total production. It was sometimes assumed that because these important primary industries comprised a very high percentage of the exports they were of so much moro importance but the figures showed that the production value

of I lie secondary industries was a factor to lie considered. For the period in <|iiestion the value of materials used in the meat preserving and dairying industries, and in all other factories, was similar, in each case lieing a little under C28,000.00(1, or a total of £55,511, 1(33. The wuiges paid were, however, vastly different, the former industiiepaying only £2,,450,092, while the hitter paid £12,195.-509. or 83 per cent of the total wages paid, all this money being kept in the Dominion. The added value other than wages was: For mem preserving and dairying £2,87(5,882. and for all other factories £9,939,. 923. The total value of the output was: For meat preserving and dairying £32.071,149. and for all other factories 119.802,120. showing a grand total of less than £82,473,509. Mr Alhtin added that in 1801* the number of manufacturing establishments in New ZeaI .nd was 59. This number was increase I to 245 by the year 1870, to ;>22 by the year 1880. to 958. by 1890. and to 149-1 during the following ten years. Since 1900 a steady develop-ne-nt had taken place and the number of establishments on March 31.1921, a as 4801.