INDUSTRIALISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 11

INDUSTRIALISTS.

HELP PROMISED.

STABILISING COSTS. OTTAWA BASIS RESTORED. Help to industrialists is promised by the National party when it becomes the Government. '"Jn our manufacturing industries, we see the most likelv and fruitful field for increasing national production, enlarging the national income available to the people, absorbing our surplus man power, and reducing the preat uneconomic loss of idle productive capacity which has so many attendant ill-effects," says the manifesto.

"We realise that our manufacturing industries, cannot prosper while they are burdened with excessive taxes, constantly rising costs, with confidence in investment and production almost nonexistent, and with Government interference and bureaucratic regulation in every direction. Wfe recognise that finance will not be available for investment in industry mile** a return commeiiMirate with the investment involved, and the ri*k incurred, is reasonablv assured. "New Zealand-made." "In a country with a relatively small population, a larger ratio of consumption of New Zealand-produced goods is essential to efficient and economical production. We will cooperate cloeely with manufacturers, so 'as to bring about a greatly increased consumption of goods produced, not only in our factories, but also on our farms, so as to stimulate production and increase efficiency wherever possible. "We will give industry the greatest amount of freedom from State interference and dictation, by limiting Government regulation to the prevention of abuse* inimical to the public interest. We will help the industrialists by stabilising costs and by constant cooperutiun in research, to improve efficiency and to discover new avenues of expansion. Country of Origin.

"We will assist industry by requiring that foreign-made goods are clearly marked with the name of the country of origin, as far as is practicable. We will restore to the manufacturing industries the Ottawa basis of competition with overseas goods. "Wβ will do everything possible to restore confidence in industrial enterprise, with goodwill and understanding between the workers and the employed, and we will encourage schemes to brin" about that end. We will encourage schemes for profit-sharing, co-partner-ship, etc. "As. a Government, we will see that wherever possible New Zealand-made goods will be given preference in Government requirements."