MORE OUTPUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 43, 21 February 1939, Page 8

MORE OUTPUT.

NJS. INDUSTRIES.

MINISTER IS DEFINITE.

COMING EXHIBITION.

A complimentary luncheon was tendered at the Chamber of Commerce to-day by the, Auckland Manufacturers' Association to the Minister of Indnetriee and Commerce, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, who holds the position of president of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, mid to Sir. T. C. A; Hislop, Mayor of Wellington, chairman of directors of the Kxhibition, Company. , The president of the association, Mr. H. W. Shove, prewided over a large gathering of ibusinesa men.' '■In' introduding- Mn 'Sttllivan- andotnCT guests, Mr. Shove said he had assured the Minister that the Government had the nianufacturers behind it wholeheartedly with respect to its policy of assisting the local industries of the Dominion; '. >-■' >''■}. ■••;' ■ .

The Minister said that the Government's policy was a-permanent one and not 1 ' merely - introduced to overcome exiting difficulties. "After having. , asked you to ; ,d6.:certam :things, weam not going to le^t"'yau;dow ; nj? , he said with, emphasis. In equipment and raw material the Government would treat tMe. manufacturers generously as far as their requirements were concerned; (Applause.,) Increased output was necessary to;make up for the reduction in i&&.. volume of goods coming from ovdrWas owing to the Government's policy of restricting imports.

Mr. Hislop eaid the- exhibition was not a ' commercial The •motiye be^^':jf'i:was.' : l»;^leij£R!t[»' >: centennial. It-,v*«i: 'not \'a. ? Wellington project,: but a national,one;-. 'The Govejfn-ment'-was »pen^ing : ft r »am approaching £200,iJ00 on tlie exhibition, which w.piild 6£- tlie dominion. Jfuch attentioii! was'ijefaig paid to' tie accommodation question-. rWhen-Bunedin held its,exhibition the problem solved;' The- same Awoifld apply Us iwiellingtoii. The opening 'date was eight months off, but 64 per .cent of the exhibition floor space had been taken Jup T : He had been disappointed with the space taken by the nianufacturers. • The people as a whole did not know what New Zealand industry was capable of. "Your .job is to that ignorance," he said. The exhibition was the greatest opportiuijty that would present itself of showing tho comnninitv what jSTI-w Zealand s industries could piotluce. ,Ho appealed to Auckland to do its fair and adequate part.