PRODUCTIVE TARANAKI.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1920, Page 4

PRODUCTIVE TARANAKI.

MORE INDUSTRIES ADVOCATED POSSIBILITIES IN WOOL. Tn welcoming delegates of the Tawnaki Provincial Branch of the New Zealand farmers' Union yesterday, Mr. F. M. Granger, Deputy Mavor "of Pa'tea referring to the importance of farming 111 Tarnnaki, remarked that 195,000 crates of cheese had been put through the I'atea port during tho season, valued at £1,350,000. * Including frozen meat the total produce exported through the port would be £2,230,951, and it was quite reasonable to suppose that New Plymouth, with the moat works at Waitara, Smart Road, and the dairy produce at Moturoa, would exceed that amount. , T, l iß ;, h j% said, spoke volumes for what the farming community of Taranaki was doing, bub he thought tho tunc had come when thev should endeavor to foster secondary industries, and the only way to do this was bv boosting the liydro-electrie power. It seemed an anomaly that we should send our wool 10,000 miles and pay the ex. penscs of manufacturing, freight, ete. "id pay £io or £l7 for suits, when by manufacturing here we should be able to procure them for half the price He understood that Wanganui" w«* starting woollen works, and possibly Abw Plymouth might follow that «- ample. Wairarapa also had started. Gradually industries would be created Jn order to establish secondary industries it was necessary to stabilise the labor problem, and in that direction immigration was required. ''l The president remarked that he had emphaswed this matter in his address. He considered it was absurd that we should pay freight both Ways and duty, etc. beside losing all the valuable bvproducts of the wool. Some people en id that this was not an industrial country. Well, he considered that it was time it was. He congratulated Patea on the position held by its port in connection with the export of produce. r