NEW ZEALAND'S NEED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 39, 16 February 1928, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND'S NEED.

SECONDARY INDUSTRIES.

AUSTRALIANS' ADVICE.

THE FEDERAL TARIFF

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, thin day

The need for encouraging the growth of secondary industries in the Dominion was emiphnsised by two political visitors from Australia when speaking at Otaki yesterday at a city milk supply function to which they had been -invited.

Referring to the imposition of a duty of (id on New Zealand dairy products bv tlio Federal Government, Mr. W. Dennett, a member of the New South Wales Parliament, said that this was a very serious matter. '"I am on© of those," he said, "who lias been fighting f(fr tu.iny years for reciprocal trade with New Zealand. Science is doing a great deal to inako milk products more valuable than we think they* are. Wc are all living under the Union-Jack, and should Ijo favourable to each other. Mr. Pratlcr, who has a great deal to do with our taiifl's, will be in this country soon, ami all tho*e who arc concerned prominently in dairying industries should meet him. and get him to put their position before the Federal Government, so that they will receive more favourable treatment by our country. There should be the interchange of many products with benefit to the producers of I>oth countries.

"I ain untaxed and pleased at the progress of Wolliii<cton and your country generally, but you will have to go in more for secondary industries. Primary indti-*! rirs can no doubt Im> expanded, but the felling of forests and fencing of land is Hearing its close, and your young fel-

, |o«s nave to tio something. secondary Industries should Im> encouraged by a favourable tariff.'' "I was greatly impressed by what I (saw of your sicondafy industries," said Mr. W. F. Smith, Minister of Agriculture, for Queensland, referring to the excellent qu"'ity of Dominion woollen goods. , am l„,. Ii„„l tO i!!!!!k *'-♦ f you do not puslf your own Industrie: as much as you ought to do. I ha< occasion to purchase articles in somi of your cities, as I was anxious t< procure guods made in New Zealand, found in the shops J went into then was no attempt to push the local pro ducts. The Jirst thing I was show, were imported goods, and in many in stances they were not the best. I wisl to make tins point. In New Zealand as in Australia, you have everything necessary to "promote human happines.and well Ix'iug. \ou can make what Hnv other country can, if you put your minds to it, and it is tlie highest form of patriotism to support the activities of your own citizen#."