A DYING PREJUDICE.

Shannon News, 7 October 1921, Page 3

A DYING PREJUDICE.

i " “MADE IN NEW ZEALAND.” Aj, a meeting of the Canterbury industrial Association, the president, Mr W. J. Jenkin, that in a recent tour* of Canterbury factories, the editors of the Christchurch newspapers had pointed out that the New Zealand manufacturers were not branding their gopds “Made in New Zealand” as they should. Mr H. R. Best said that many retailers in placing orders insisted that the brands should be kept off the -goods. They asserted that the public did not want, locally manufactured goods. In order to' secure orders they had. to defer to'this whim of the retailers. Mr J. A. Black said that the matter of the brands should be made the subject of legislation. He thought that local manufacturers should be compelled to stamp their goods “Madp in New Zealand.” • "The chairman said the prejudice against locally manufactured goods was slowly but surely dying. He looked forward to the time when the, association would be able to turn its attention to educating the school children—the buyers of to-morrow—upon the wisdom of using goods made in the Dominion. Mr H. Willis thought that compulsory branding would act against the manufacturers of pickles, woollen's, and boots. Buyers of machinery and heavy ironwork much preferred the locally made goods, but there was an absurd prejudice in connection with some lines. The chairman said the bogey' against New Zealand-made goods was largely put up by retailers, it was not a matter of the, prejudice existing in the minds of the btiying public. Laler he hoped to outline; a campaign that might be waged upon the antipathy of our own manufacturers.