Address on N.Z. Week from 2YA

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 11, 26 September 1930, Page 4

Address on N.Z. Week from 2YA

TTSE was made of Station 2YA in connection with New Zealand Industries Week, when the Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle, Minister of Industries and Commerce, delivered an address on New Zealand goods and New Zealand scenery. Dealing specifically with the question of employment, the Minister expressed the hope that listeners would concentrate on the purchase of New Zealand manufactures. He commended the policy of his Excellency the Governor-General, who had stated that the remedy for existing unemployment was in the hands of the people themselves. His Excellency was wearing clothes made in New Zealandj:from New Zealand materials. ‘ "If we adopt a policy of buying New Zealand goods," said the Minister, "we shall be buying something made by New Zealand labour from material produced in New Zealand. For 1928-29 there were 64,000 persons employed in the manufacturing section of our secondary industries. The value of the products of those industries was £42,000,000. Hach £1,000,000 worth of goods therefore represents the employe ment of 1500 persons. Our manufac; turers have to depend almost entirely upon local markets. If every New Zealand household will, on the average, increase its proportion of New Zealafad goods by only 2/6 a week, the demand will necessitate increased production to the value of one and a quarter million pounds per annum. Such an increase would involve the employment of nearly 2000 additional workers."