MORE LOCAL INDUSTRIES.
The Taieri Advocate says: The new tariff is already having an effect in the way of stimulating local industries. We notice that one firm is about to start the manufacture of starch, and announces that it wul be supplied 20 per cent cheaper than has hitherto been charged for the imported article. The importations of starch into New Zealand amount to about £BOOO yearly, a tidy little sum to send away for an article that can be produced here. We fapey that had there been a starch factory m existence last winter Taieri farmers could have found a better market tor their potatoes. A blacking factory is also being started. This is not exactly a new thing, for blacking has ..beenmade in New Zealand for tome
time, but the industry will receive an additional impetus and before long Day and Martin’s product will be unknown in New Zealand aud its place will be usurped by a colonialmade article. The importations of blacking amount to over £2OOO a year. We have also heard rumors of a match factory being started. The importations of matches amount to over £26,000 a year. For the three simple articles we have referred to we send away value to the amount of £BO,OOO per annum ; a very large portion of which is expended in paying wages to people who live thousands of miles away. What legitmate reason can be given why we should not pay this money to those who are living in the same land as ourselves ?
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1768, 26 July 1888, Page 3
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255MORE LOCAL INDUSTRIES. Temuka Leader, Issue 1768, 26 July 1888, Page 3
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