INTERESTING TRIP THROUGH HALL OF INDUSTRIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 6

INTERESTING TRIP THROUGH HALL OF INDUSTRIES

This is the nineteenth of a series of informative articles that are being ■published in THE SUN weekly throughout 1930 . describing many of New Zealand's most important industries.

Something of Everything SJItOM face powder to bowser station pumps, from period t furniture to linseed oil, and reversible rugs, and knives, and toothbrushes and so on-—everything, in fact. There is no end to the amazing variety of the products of New Zealand industry as displayed in Auckland’s Hall of Industries'.

One doesn’t realise until cue a elkally enters the Hall of Industries, what an extraordinarily wide range of goods is manufactured in New Zealand One thought of foodstuffs and clothing, of course, but not of this all-embracing array. ASTOUNDING VARIETY A casual tour round, and one’s eyes light on such unexpected products as

galvanised Iron buckets, garbage cans and pails, cabinet gramophones, shirts | and pyjamas, wire mattresses, reed- : loom chairs and tables, an excavator’s j shovel, gas cookers, to.oth brushes in . all stages from the fibre and celluloid tc the finished article, paint and creosote, travelling goods of every kind, showroom and shop window supplies

:ich as busts and electro-plate stands, face and toilet powder made partly from Rotorua mud, blankets, rugs, socks, underwear, jerseys, pull-overs, scarves and everything else that can be made from New Zealand wool, and even marble for ornamental and kitchen use; dainty evening shoes and heavy farm boots, corn brooms and hair brushes, an electric pump for farm use, jams and preserves, cattle

feed, office furniture and equipment, such as file cabinets, corsets, comfortable settees, a most fashionable little frock, kapok mattresses —the list is almost endless. WHAT IT MEANS In one instant one realises what the manufacturing industries mean to

New Zealand. They mean the ntilisation of every ounce of the people’s efforts, and in every direction—in short, manufacturing within this country everything that we need for every-day use. The Hall of Industries is really a shop window into the heart of New Zealand industrial development. But it is more than that —by setting all these varied articles side by side in the one room it shows that New Zealanders are versatile workers, with wonderful capabilities. THE VISITORS’ BOOK Everyone who has visited the Hall of Industries to date has signed tb* visitois’ book. It makes interesting reading, for the addresses given rang* from every suburb in Auckland and from all over New Zealand, even aa far South as Christchurch ani Dunedin. There have even been visitor* from overseas. Several people hav* given their home addresses as some county in England, and several more hail from Sydney. One man came from Japan, another from Seattle, U.S.A., another from Madrid, Spain, and others from Great Mercury Island, Russia, and Jersey City, U.S.A,

The remarks in the visitors’ book also make most interesting reading, and it is worth noting that they are all complimentary. “Wonderfully good," and “an eye-opener," are typical entries. The nearest approach to disappointment were the entries,

“Foundation for something bigger” and “Not everybody represented”; hut even these accentuate the prevailing pleasure and surprise. One Sydney man wrote, “All goods displayed are equal if not better than any imported articles” —unsolicited praise that should give rise to thought by every New Zealander.