DOMINION INDUSTRY.
AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Feb. 9. In a speech at the opening of the Dominion Conference of New Zealand Industries, the Mayor, Mr. Gunson, said he had every confidence in the future. While the Dominion depended chiefly on primary products it had other industries which were equally important. He realised there was industrial unrest, but scouted the idea of anything like revolution. He expressed the opinion that, despite the falling tendency of the cost of living, it would be a mistake to reduce wages at the present time. Mr. Hills, president of the Industrial Association, said that the association up to the present had met labor amicably. There were other organisations to * look after those interests. This body kept strictly to the work for which it was promoted. They were trying to lift industry to a higher plane s.nd when the occasion arose they would ask the view of Labor whenever they wanted it. Auckland, Last Night. The conference adopted a remit from Dunedin that the machinery of the Customs Act be so arranged that anomalies may be removed without the reconstruction of the Act. The Industrial Conference carried the following resolution: That the Government should accept the present Australian tariff as the basis of any such alteration in our own tariff as the conditions in New Zealand may warrant, and that' the Minister in charge of immigration be approached by the executive and asked to arrange a scheme for the housing of immigrants on arrival at the various centres.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1921, Page 5
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