THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
FOSTERING LOCAL INDUSTRIES
It is reported that the Minister of Industries' and Commerce is disposed to go further than the sound proposal of the Manufacturers’ Association, that a Board should be set up to watch secondary industries. The Minister, it is said, favours a Board that would promote the interests of all industries. I here is a good deal to be said for the wider view. Development in New Zealand must be primarily land development but with this must go an exten-' sion of secondary industries, especially those in which our oil raw material is worked up. The genera} . tendency is for manufacturers to ask for more protection, and for the farmers to lean towards free trade in manufactured goods, and to this extent there is antagonism between the two sets of industries. A safeguarding Board for secondary industries only, while it could do very useful work, might sharpen that antagonism, but a Board that surveyed the whole field might blunt it and prevent favours being given to one section at the expense of others.
—Auckland Paper,
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1929, Page 4
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181THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1929, Page 4
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