Manufacturing in N.Z.
HERE is one consequence of technical improvements which is not generally appreciated, but which is of very great importance to our problem; and this is that technical improvements are associated with a declining relative importance of farming and a growing relative importance of manufacture, and professional, recreational, distributive and other services, With economic progress, a smaller proportion of the effort of society is required to satisfy the primary needs and a bigger proportion is available to provide what we regard as comforts or luxuries, Comforts become necessaries, and luxuries become comforts. This suggests the probability that, in the future, manufacture will become relatively more important in New Zealand than in the past. The tendency is likely to be strengthened by two other factors which are complicating and not altogether pleasant to anticipate. The first of these is the possible increase in the use of substitutes for some of New Zealand's exports; for example, artificial fibres for wool, plastics for casei’ and margarine for butter. The second is the trend of population in Great Britain and other countries of Western Europe.-("Reconstruc-tion and Manufacture," by Professor Belshaw, 1YA, Nov. 13.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 5
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191Manufacturing in N.Z. New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 5
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