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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 7

LEATHER “ There’s Nothing Like Leather !” When Buying Leather Goods Ask —“ is this made of New Zealand Leather ?” New Zealand Leathers are Equal to the World’s Best. The Auckland Tanners’ Association. Phone 43-110.

No. 55. Feature Two of 1930 Weekly Series. Authorised by the Auckland Manufacturers’ Association. Geo. Finn, President. J. Findlay, Secretary. "All Clear” for Progress! Public Opinion Switches N.Z. Industries on to the Right Line —to Prosperity ! HELP BUSINESS TO BOOM By degrees public opinion is getting on the right track, and people are beginning to recognise that the only way to permanent prosperity is by industrial expansion and progress. The decline in the values of wool and other staple exports is serious, but can be recovered by increasing our industrial production of wealth. Our agriculturists and pastoralists are doing their best to make up for lower prices by higher production. Our manufacturers are equally anxious to add to our wealth by a greater output of goods, and greater industrial production by our skilled workers must play a greater part in increasing the internal business of the country by raising the purchasing power of our industrial workers. Sidetracking Our Industries In past years the production of our manufactured goods has been, sidetracked to countries outside the Dominion, but our leaders of thought now realise that this important branch of wealth production must be captured and retained by our own workers. The greater our industrial expansion the greater the local market for our farmers’ products here. Last year we imported over 3,000,000 pairs of boots and shoes. By making our own footwear, as we easily can, our farmers’ skins and hides could be used here, with our fellmongers and tanners kept busy, and the farmer would not be at the mercy of world parity prices for sales on the other side of the earth. By making our own clothing and woollen goods from our own fresh and " live ” wool, instead of importing shoddy and mixture of “ live ” and “ dead ” wool, our pastoralists would suffer less from the vagaries of the overseas wool markets. At the present time we use within New Zealand 62 per cent, of our products from the land; the 38 per cent exported has to be sold in open competition with the worst-paid and worst-con-ditioned workers in the world. The more we can consume of our raw materials and foodstuffs the more independent our farmers will be of overseas markets. Leading citizens, from the Governor-General down, have all been urging on patriotic citizens the right of our local industries to loyal and wholehearted support from every man, woman, and child in New Zealand. Our industries can only forge ahead and flourish in proportion to the patronage extended to them by our own people. By keeping the workers of outside countries busy filling our orders we are keeping our own industrial plants and their workers idle. The claim of our industries to public support is beyond dispute, and their right to safeguarding and protection against unfair competition will no doubt be recognised and enforced by Parliament in the near future; then we may look for a wonderful revival of internal trade and industrial prosperity. Until then our people can send our industries ahead on the right track by an even greater and wider insistence on being supplied with locally made goods wherever they furnish our needs. The widest range and variety is ready to the buyer's hand and purse. By keeping the workers in these industries busy, everyone shares in their prosperity and happiness. There’s only one “right” line —Switch All Your Orders on to New Zealand-Made Goods !

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