BUILDING INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1939, Page 9

BUILDING INDUSTRY

PREMIER ON LABOUR POLICY. APPEAL TO ALL PARTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Advertisements in the Press by New Zealand manufacturers requiring additional staff were commented on in an interview last evening by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, who said this was the first time that a genuine effort had been made in the Dominion to promote local industry. “That is one of the best indications, and it is obviously due to our policy,” the Prime Minister said. “We are going on in earnest to build industry in New Zealand. Manufacturers have some idea what they can expect the Government to do in the way of assisting industry, and they are accepting our word that it is not a temporary thing. It is a genuine attempt to build industry here—the first time that a genuine effort has been made in New Zealand to promote local industry. And we are not going to stop at small things to make a success of it.

Mr Savage said that on this issue the Government was not only appealing to employers and employees engaged in industry, but was also appealing to the people of the country, who were the buyers of the products, to support the products of their own country, and their own industry. That was patriotism.