MANUFACTURERS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1933, Page 6

MANUFACTURERS

MEET' IN ,CONFERENCE

(Per Press Association ~ Copyright.)

WELLINGTON, November 14

An assurance that the manufacturers of the Dominion would do everything in their power to .assist in the relief of unemployment, wa s given by Frank Campbell, in his presidential address to-day at the opening of the special conference organised by the Manufacturers Federation to discuss unemployment and other important matters.

Mr Campbell expressed manufacturers’ ■appreciation, of the manner in which Mr Forbes had carried out his onerous duties, and assured him of the manufacturers help and sympathy.. “When 1 we. realise that for over two years we | have, carried seventy thousand registered unemployed and possibly another twenty thousand not registered,.” said Mr Campbell, ..“©ne.,realises.the wonderful resources of the Dominion and it should giy.e ug great heart -for ..the future.” After saying that, they we!©, meeting in. better heart than-.for-three years, a n d I expressing the ©'pinion - thatthey had just cause for confidence and sane optinrisifi, he said llie opportunity would •be given to discing. ways to-accelerate the .return of.,:empld.yee s to jobs. The number engaged in manuf xctufing . inj dustries- had dropped , v from,-67.000 in] 1 .1929 to -52,000 in 1933;- ft should, not] be ,an impossible task to, gel back to. the 1929 figures. He 'fthoped fhat decisions would be reached': that would not only •be ©f benefit to manufacturers, but be of national benefit. He mentioned •that the manufacturing industries had just been submitted to a most searching inquiry. Production, costs and methods had been carefully inquired into and it might be that ,a similar inquiry could | be undertaken with considerable advan-1 tage to pastoral products. The importance of pastoral industries wg.s ever appreciated by the manufacturers’ fed-, ©ration and economic development of both pastoral and manufacturing industries side .by side, making for a balanced New Zealand, was the aim of the federation. Surely that was not .impossible in New Zealand. He expressed the thanks of manufacturers to Dr Marsden and his colleagues on the Department of Scientific and Industrial [Research for co-operation and advice, and urged the necessity of -overcoming the prejudice against New Zealand made j goods