ENCOURAGE LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 274, 27 July 1880, Page 2

ENCOURAGE LOCAL INDUSTRIES.

Thus discourses tue " New Zealand Mail" : t —Now," N.Z. -was perfectly well able to pay what he ow d without selling his farm or even hw working plant. He determined to listen to no financial doctors, but to act with plain common sense. So he said to his family and people: — . , " Consume les3'spirits, tobacco, clothing and other luxuries, and thus reduce unproductiveimports of manufactured goods. Make your own clothes, and everything yon abso utelv need that you can make as cheaply as you can import, and thus—' Encourage local industries and the import of ' raw material,' not procurable on vour land. JKmploy more labor to sow more corn, to attend to irore she -p, ana to carry the products more cheaply to lmafcet, and thus increase your productive expenditure and consequently greatly increase your exports.' Dismiss those persons who produce nothing, but merely contribute to luxury and importance. Use or e clerk where befor c you employed two, and let the other help to get the grain and wool, reduce to a mimunum your 'UNPRODUCTIVE EXPENDITURE." They increased their exports of produce - decreased their imports of luxuries, and made* on the farm so many things they f ZA previously bought outside that not; on y did they pay *-«> intert f the old people, but also waxed so rich hat - they agreed to "take up the principal liemselves, and keep the into res t circula ting among themselves instead of sending it thus away They lived very happily sll the rest of their. lives, but never could oe penraa*et lo .SEEK AN' TITER. LOA>".'