LICENSED INDUSTRIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 3

LICENSED INDUSTRIES

UNDER EFFICIENCY ACT. THREE APPLICATIONS GRANTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Three industries—the manufacture for sale of soap and soap powder, the manufacture for sale of radio receiving sets, and the manufacture for sale of apple-juice —were gazetted licensed industries under the Industrial Efficiency Act by notices published in the “Gazette” issued yesterday. Reference to the notices was made last evening by the Minister of Industries and commerce, Mr Sullivan, who said that upward of a dozen applications for licensing various industries were under consideration by the Bureau of Industry at present. ■Mr Sullivan said that in each of the present cases the scope of the industry for licensing purposes had been specially defined in the covering licensing notice. “For some time past,” he added, "representatives of the soap industry throughout the Dominion have, through the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, been in touch with the Bureau of Industry and myself in regard to their application for the licensing of their industry under the Industrial Efficiency Act. The industry has submitted a tentative industrial plan for its reorganisation and development, and it is expected that discussions with a view to finalising the provisions of this plan will begin at an early date. Meanwhile, units at present engaged in the industry as defined in the notice are exempt from applying to the bureau for licences until December 1 next.”

“With the greatly-increased industrial activity which has resulted from the Government’s policy of expanding industry wherever possible, there seems to have arisen a much clearer appreciation among industrialists generally of the many advantages offered by the Industrial Efficiency Act in the matter of the efficient organisation and planning of their industries,” said Mr Sullivan. “Actually there are upward of a dozen applications for licensing various industries under consideration by the Bureau of Industry at present, and already some eight provisional industrial plans have been submitted by the representatives of the industries concerned —in most cases through th.e New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation. Judging from the experiences of the bureau with those industries already licensed, the Industrial Efficiency Act is adequately fulfilling the purposes for which it was placed on the Statute Book.”