CEMENT SHORTAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1920, Page 2

CEMENT SHORTAGE.

DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY. "As for getting our cement from Home, that is a dream," was an opinion expressed fo a Wellington Post reporter by Mr. D. C. Bates, Dominion Meteorologist, who recently returned fiom the Meteorological Conference. "Cement is far more needed for building devastated areas and houses in England." As cement was urgently required in New Zealand, this pointed to need for development of industry. From what he had seen in the Old Country it became clearly manifest to him that every effort should be made to make New Zealand self-contained. Australia had taken this lesson to heart more than New Zealand. It was absolutely essential that everything possible should be done in this country to increase production and zealously push forward certain manufacturing industries for which there was at the present time a pressing need. It was necessary for the progress of the Dominion. "We must recognise, as far as the future is concerned," he said, "that every reasonable step must be tnlctm to substantially increase our farming population and products of the soil. In doing this we are furthering primary production, upon which secondary industries depend for encouragement anil development. In other words, agricultural progress must go hand-in-hand with manufacturing developments."