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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1926, Page 2

" SriM-ORT file ci»iintry that supports you,” urged .Mr K. 11. .Mnrriner at the first meeting of the Women’s Uraneli of the Canterbury Industrial Association at Christchurch. The Mayoress (.Mrs ■I. 11. Archer), who presided, said that the Cantorburv Industrial Association was a comparatively old organisation, tint that was the first meeting of the women’s lirauch. .Miss 1,. Taliarl (president of the branch) said that the nsociation had thought tSint it would In- a oood thine jf the women were got together with the idea ul pushing forward Xcw Zealand goods. She had r.'etntlv lead that if all the laclories iu New Zealand had heeii working to their full capacity last year, 11.(Kill more people would have been employed than there were. There was at present something wrun« with the Labour legislatiou. A hov on leaving school could yet a bigger watte for sweeping out a store than if he became an apprentice. What was the result!' The hoys were coin.; lor the hie wages. It was a wastin'!" of youth that Xew Zealand industries were suiTering from, to-day. She had read iu the papers that hoys in reformative, institutions were rc spending to the treatment they were receiving there - they should never I'mve been there. -Mr K. 11. Mnrriner said Hint some time ago he had received a return from the Department ol Industries and Commene showing how miii'i) money had gone out ol Xcw Zealand in recent years for the purchase ol foreign goods. The figures were amazing. I!ci ween lhlo and liftM money

had gone mil of the country ns Inflows :—To l''rniice. Lb.(10(1.000 ; Australia. L I 1.000.1)1 >!); Canada. L17.<)l!0,(‘)0i): United States. Ltio.OflO.dOO. It was said that New Zealand was essentially a priuutrv-pmilncing country—secondary industries were not lor her. Tim same tiling, contended .Mr .Marriner. hail been said ol England. Canada, the United Slates, indeed all the great exporting countries of the world. It. was said by sonic people that the maiiufaiprnducers. That was not right right. The manufacturers each year were absorbing L 11.001).HO!) worth ol raw materials. Mach vear 077.00(1.0110 worth of

goods were being nianiilacilived in the Dominion. By lli.Th they hoped i! would le LUiO.bdd.niii). In 11)21, L7.dll!).00!) worth ol goods were brought into the country that might have been manufactured in Xcw Zealand, 11,500 more people would have been employed in secondary industries. Over ,L2,001),(ll)ll ol ready-made clothing was imported last yi ar. " Why are I.2S(U!(Mt persons mii of work in England!'” asked Mr \V. .1. .leukin. ‘lt is bnau-c Engl:itit 1 is a fool to hcr-elf. London is a tree port and the conolry is being sivamin'd wit.li loreign goods. ' In New Zealand to-day they were allowing the foreign octopus to grow. They should kill it. and they could mile do it by pun li:i .-jug New Zealand made good ~