U&A. EXPERIMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 8

U&A. EXPERIMENT.

CO-ORDINATING OF EFFORT. FARMS AND MANUFACTURES. An Interesting experiment designed to bring about the correlation of farming and manufacturing industries and being carried out in the United States, was outlined this morning by Mr. R. O. I Hoehn. of Bloomfield, New Jersey, who arrived by the Mariposa from San Franc iaco, Mr. Hoehn is in charge of foreign manufacture for the Lehn and Fink Corporation, of B(oouilleld, and is- considering the possibility of entu/blisliing h factory in Wellington for his firm for the purpose of manufacturing cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. In mi interview. Mr. Hoehn said that the experiment to which he referred »ns an interesting one and would probably work out, successfully. In the heavy industries, of course, there vms need for large units—the »teel mills for in"t a uce, employing large nuiiilxTs of men and the correlation of and iigrlctifture with them was impossible. Mr. Henry Ford was told that he could t,K " into effect, but he l,,u Mfc u,| d ways and means of breaking i'|» Vis' manufactures into small units nier* situated iu the farming communities. The scheme was dependent on t ie lengtli of the farming cycle, but it. was an interesting development and. ••yen to day Mr. Ford was insisting that Ins men must farm for «. certain period of the year for their own sustenance In referring to the New Zealand plan of licensing imports. Mr. Hoehn said that tho \vn« in iH'foriiaiiro with a world-wide movement, but whether it was po-MMc to introduce it in all places whs It (jiicst ion which none at this stage could Jiii-Mvcr. He liihl just come through South America, mid thev had been practising something -Miuiiar to the New Zealand scheme there for some time, but in some cases they had not progressed very far. it was just a i|uostion of what c""ld be done ccoiioiuically to tit into til , tiiie. One could not expect, however, to build a Birmingham in Wellington, but everytliing could be | ariicd out within its limits. ' I