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ENGINEERING RIVALS.

The Tnrill Commiission's Report on "The Engineering Industries" states that the British engineering industry lias on the whole progressed in recent years, but not so rapidly as the similar industries uf Germany and the United States. In 1901 the machinery exports of the United Kingdom were ±'0,000,000 more than the six largest competing foreign countries. In 11)00 they were £17,000,000 less, so that the position was reversed.

Colonial preference has been of much benefit. _ Foreign competition has been severely felt, especially in the electrical industries. Eighty-one. per cent of the new plant for dynamos and alternators in generating stations ill London and the provinces is of foreign origin. .Municipal contracts are placed abroad to save small amounts, though the municipalities are at their wits' end to find work for masses of unemployed." At the same time British workers and manufacturers are deprived of valuable experience, and in the words of one great authority on the trade, '• it pays better to have a warehouse than a factory—there is less anxiety and more prolit in selling forcign-inade goods than in employing British labour."

in electric light fittings, though British firms produced better goods, about one-half the trade is in the hands of Germany. The British manufactui*T cannot, it is said, compete in lamp-hold-ers, fuses, and cutouts.

Manufacturers ospmnfly complain of suffering from the prestige which American machinery has obtained. Where foreign machinery has once been fitted it is difficult to secure the introduction of English.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 49, 23 March 1909, Page 3

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ENGINEERING RIVALS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 49, 23 March 1909, Page 3

ENGINEERING RIVALS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 49, 23 March 1909, Page 3

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