INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 110, 25 September 1912, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION

MEETING IN WELLINGTON.

By Telegraph—Pra<« Association. Wellington, Tuesday. After a lapse of eleven years 'the' Industrial Corporation of New Zealand met here to-day. Mr. Partridge, chairman of the Wellington Industrial Association, presided. The chairman, in his address, said that it was only right that a fair proportion of the attention of Legislatures should be directed to the advancement of local industries. The first essential was to create a demand for New Zealand made goods, and he urged upon manufacturers the necessity of keeping their goods up to quality. Taking industries as a whole, he said there had not been the advance made during the past ten years that he would like to have seen, but he had great faith in the future of the Dominion as a manufacturing nation. He particularly stressed the necessity for urging upon the Government to go,in for a sound immigration policy. A motion which was brought forward by the Auckland delegate, that representations be made to the Government to form metalled roads on all blocks of land before offering the land to settlers was carried. It was also decided that the Government be urged to establish a school of forestrv.