WOOLLEN INDUSTRY.
MB. SAVAGE IN DEFENCE. (By Telegraph,—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The statement by the Minister of Customs that unless protected industry was prepared to make any classes of goods for which there was a considerable local market it should not continue to enjoy tariff shelter, drew prompt criticism from tho Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Savage, who saw in it a particular threat to woollen mills. In this conncc- ! tion ho considered Mr. Coates had made a direct attack. Mr. Savage said he had made it. his business to go through woollen mills, and they had nothing to be ashamed of. Almost everything was being turned out and they were employing thousands of New Zealanders who consumed primary products. It was more economical to sell primary products in New Zealand than to Manchester or Eastern nations. He had gone through boot factories, and found them following up-to-date methods, and he found no shoddy. He .was similarly impressed with biscuit and '.confectionery factories, and it must be better to see New Zealanders in them than on relief works. A considerable number of items in the tariff, he said, . were being made in New Zealand of ' quality second to none in the world.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 162, 11 July 1934, Page 10
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