AUSTRALIA'S LEAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 7

AUSTRALIA'S LEAD.

EXAMPLE FOR NEW ZEALAND. BAN ON IMPORTS. TO DEVELOP MANUFACTURES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Mr. I. Woolf, president of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association, at a meeting of the executive last evening, urged the prohibition of the importation of motor cars and suggested that the New Zealand Parliament should take the same steps to develop manufactures here as the Scullin Government has taken in Australia. "To those of our manufacturers who, through the beneficial effect of the high •tate of exchange, are likely to be busy between now and the end of the year," he said. "I strongly urge that the consequent easing of overhead charges on a larger output should be passed on to the consumer and prove that our contention is correct that lower prices follow increased production. "As to our farmer friends," he added, "I would 1 impress on tliem the advantages of a greater New Zealand market. A striking instance of those advantages is that during the present month the retail price paid in London for New Zealand butter was 1/2 per lb, while where it is produced the retail price is 1/G to 1/7 per lb."