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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1927, Page 4

New Zealanders have cause to be proud of their own manufactures, and, whether the prejudice against them is due to snobbishness, ignorance-, or stupidity —alternative explanations of which it will have lieen suggested—it is a weakness totally opposed to the interests of those who cherish it. Apart from other aspects of the question, iL is much better that our own industries should supply employment for our people than that Government and local bodies should be reduced to raising loans to supply a 'proportion of them with artificial and the least remunerative employment in seasons of depression that are encouraged by over-im-portation. The co-operation of manufacturer. distributor, and purchaser is required, we arc told, to overcome a prejudice which makes really its first reflection on csur intelligence. The manufacturer, generally speaking, is doing his part. The distributor seems to be less to blame than some of his customers. It is time that more consumers woke up to the fact that whoever helps New Zealand industries helps himself, and that New Zealand manufacturers are something different now from what they were in the ’sixties.—Dunedin “Star.”