TOUR BY MINISTERS
FACTORIES INSPECTED QUALITY OF QOODB WELLINGTON, Friday The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, and the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, visited further factories to-day and in the course of the visits were informed that a reduction in the imports of canned fruit had led to the doubling of the supply of for New Zealand grown fruit in the Hawke's Bay area. The subject of baths for State houses also came up. a company manager saying that he believed his company had proved that porcelain and eri&mel baths could be made in New Zealand equal to anything made elsewhere. At one stagp of the tour Mr Savage said that the Government had set out to build up industries in New Zealand because they believed that the people of New Zealand were capable of doing the work required. Mr Sulluan said that in some industries New Zealand was producing the best quality in the world. The
young people or New Zealand wei adaptable and enterprising and Ne l Zealand could become a great mane facturing nation. All that was r? quired was the co-operation of th workers with the employers of whic they had had evidence in the factor they were visiting.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 12
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211TOUR BY MINISTERS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20740, 25 February 1939, Page 12
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