The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1883. LOCAL MANUFACTURE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 237, 8 September 1883, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) Suivant la verite. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1883. LOCAL MANUFACTURE.

We are entirely m accord with our Wanganui evening contemporary, *' that no great prosperity can ever be hoped for without manufacturing energy m our midst;" This is a truism which scarcely admits of argument. We are as firm believers m the advantages to bedeived by a whole district and community from the establishment of local manufactures as is our esteemed contemporaiy, who contends with point and force that, " What everyone is coming to see is that the only hope is m working up the raw material— in man* ufactures." He further points out that a great stride has taken place m the establishment of woollen factories, and jam and dairy factories. It is an enormous saying to be able to send away .our staple industries m a manufactured state. Americans always prefer to send away their grain m the shape of pork, having calculated to a nioety the .comparative profits. Locally, the' rule ought to be to prod ace as much as possible what we consume, and support each other. The Herald inn. stances articles that cao be manufactured as well, and perhaps better, and most certainly cheaper, Joeally as imported, and yet the latter is given the preference by the consumer. This is a strange fact, but nevertheless generally true. Its explanation is rather difficult of solution. Peopfo are too apt to despise the product of heal industry, and to conceive the entirely fallacious impression that what is made at a distance must be superior to that turned out m their midst. If the popular view were different, ifc would be better for promoters of local industries. Industrial Associations would do much good m encouraging manufactures, and would exorcise a healthy influence on local enterprise, by diffusing much-needed information, and imparting vigour to many industries now ia a slumbering condition.. We trust to see the public mind yet. awaken to the value of local industries, industrial associations, production and manufacture ol varied kinds, and other important kindred undertakings which are too much neglected at present.