PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 112, 14 May 1929, Page 8

PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM.

BUY "NEW ZEALAND MADE." APPEAL TO BUSINESS MEN. "If you can honestly say that you are in the habit of asking for New Zealand made goods when making a purchase, you aro following the lines of the highest practical patriotism. If not, you' are refraining—though perhaps not intentionally—from doing some real good to your country, the advancement of your own business, and the. prospects of your children, when the time comes for them to enter the- industrial firing line." . So declared Mr. W. R. Bagnall, former mamber of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, in addressing members of the Karangahape Road Business Promotion Society ait their weekly luncheon to-day. Trade within the. Empire and the fostering of home industries, said Mr. Bagnall, was the surest form of defence. It might be said by some that there, was no necessity to urge upon New Zcalanders the claims of patriotism or of encouraging trade within the Empire, but the fact remained that they wore just as remiss as any others in this respect. It was second nature for a citizen of the United States to ask, "Is ft American made?" but the same could not be said of the average citizen of the Dominions. It was not possible for any country to get on without the purchase of some imported goods, but by purchasing those which could be made at home a great step forward would have been made. On the motion of Mr. M. J, Bennett, who presided, a vote of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late. Mr. H. S. Kissling.