NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 72, 24 March 1906, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND MANUFACTURES.

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. = jgy -Telegra_*-- Press Association.)

(____sTC__RCH_ Friday.

a-vg report of the joint committee of Industrial Association __L the and Labour (_k>_ae_l, ''Sainted to consider the question of 4e promotion and encouragement of teal manufactures and productions, was doted by ttie Industrial Association . _°^ c quarterly meeting to-night. It i_ 'been previously adopted by the and Labour Council The committee interviewed a large number of _Ma_faetnrers, retailers, and workers, igg-gng with all the principal indusjjjgt and unanimously came to the f olJowina:- conclusions-.---- - L 'That oar local industries and proyjnetioßS in some instances are not keeping pace with the general increase of iro&e ia the colony, and that this is iansed _" g re&ier importations and fljiii-g -of prices by importers, and that tie cheap labour in foreign countries ~m many branches enables the importer j0- Bsdersell the local manufacturer. 2. That the tariff should be amended w'tffiring off all duties on raw material l , ■gsed by our manufacturers, which raw joaierial is not, or is not likely, to be jjjxJueed in this colony, and by an ingjgase of duty in certain directions to jaeet the dumping of the surplus maimketnres from other countries.

3. _tat the attention oi the Governjaait should be drawn to the necessity of eomp-lsory brasdiag of all New Zea-jsa-_ade goods "Made in New Zealand."

4. Thai the workers on the whole are fts_. to the cause of local industry, but g__ eajmot be said of all classes of the giZ7___y.

.5, That a card should be printed in an attractive form, setting forth the desiribiSty of encouraging local manufacferres and productions from a patriotic jomi of view. Such card, with the consent of the Education Boards, to be placed in every school ot the colony, in _c tope that it will educate the rising generation to take an interest in the oaase of local industry.

6. That the aid of the Trades and iabocr Councils, unions, industrial assocstkiLa, and public bodies should be •utilised to further the advancement of Joeal industries.

T. That this committee strongly irges that the Government and all ladies dealing with public expenditure aurald be requested to give preference •i-sever possible to the manufactures _t-productions of the eolonv.

T_ committee also make suggestions for the effectual carrying out of the irerk outlined in the report, the most important being as follows:

L That the urgent necessity of _-___g the tariff as early a3 possible bee- session in the direction indicated _ _k report should be impressed upon -a Premier by deputation. i. That the Premier be approached g a request that the printing and ________ of the report should be tm--BH__ by the Government. 3. Hat the question of the formation - aa industrial league to be open to ipne over the age of sixteen be eonSEered. Eveiy member should pledge tespsll „ give preference whenever possiae to car -own manafactures and prouaetiona.

__&_!_?§£_ the- joint committee should re_maa_n_ng committee, the chair- =__ being empowered to call a meeting a* __y time to disenss matters mutually *fectn_ the interests of the employer --d enployee.

SHE LABOUR PARTY AST) _____ TARIFF.

(2y Telegraph.— Own Ccrrespondent)

WELLINGTON. Friday. M its meeting last night the Trades "M labour Council considered remits f**_«e various Councils throughout a_-eo__y to be considered at the ||Pc Trades and Labour Conference «"se__.in Ch__-teh_reh during Easter Iff; .^-- c tariff question was intro- £**--- hy a remit from Auckland, which *-..-!__ provoked a disenssion on the fHapve merits of free trade and proAbout 40 delegates were pre- ■"_ and the meeting ultimately agreed 1;* isolation which affirm a the def^f* 58 of giving protection to the «--atrj_ natural industries, and that should be revised with that 2_? *-*~ next session. This reaUy Labour party to nothing o? dsfidte on the all-important >oues- «? of tariff revision. There fi a ?g>g free trade element in labour cir«!__.f__ a was recognised that the great fight to determine labour's posifte vhole matter would take jf?-a -__rist_ureh, and the advocates _d 2f f rade ''■'c" accordingly content ~J«Jhe subject go forward in the ~P of a remit, which can be altered ~samoved m _" orit - dictated.