GROWTH OF INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1938, Page 6

GROWTH OF INDUSTRY

CONSIDERATION BY CABINET COMMITTEE MEASURES TO INCREASE PRODUCTION. STATEMENT BY PREMIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. An announcement that a Cabinet committee was making an investigation to ascertain the scope for industrial expansion in New Zealand was made by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, in an interview last evening. The possibility of further developing existing industries, both primary and secondary, and of establishing new industries on an economic basis will be investigated by the committee. Mr Savage’s announcement was made when he was invited to comment on a statement by the secretary of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association, Mr A. W. Nisbet, in Conciliation Council yesterday, to the effect that New Zealand manufacturers generally had not received the assistance from the Government they required or had been led to expect. “Mr Nisbet’s remarks do not read like the words of a man who wants to assist the Government to help the manufacturers,” said Mr Savage. “We have a special committee of Cabinet working on this very question at the present time, and if Mr Nisbet would give some thought to devising a plan that would be helpful he would be helping the Government and the manufacturers, too. “This committee is ' investigating the possibilities for the most rapid increase in production we can have. The first thing it will investigate will be the position relating to existing industries. After ascertaining the extent to which the production of these can be increased, the committee will take steps to ascertain what new industries can be started and economically developed in New Zealand. Its investigation will embrace both primary and secondary industries.”