OUR INHERITANCE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17061, 4 February 1921, Page 7

OUR INHERITANCE.

t— : — advice by boabd op trade » I OHA3BMAH. • "We are living in a peculiar afl 8 *" caid Mr W. G. McDonald, chairman of the Board of Trade, in speaking at ft® Boot Manufacturers' Association ban- ! quet last night. "Goods on shelves to- | day may be of little value to-morrow, ] or they may be of the name value." It waa the consumers of w t? gave the value, Mr McDonald continued, and not the, effortsof the manufacturers, workers, add capitalists, who had spent their time and money in producing the That showed the way in which something could be done for New Zealand industries. He would not go aa far aa to say that the manufacturers should produce all they oould because there was a demand, but he would say that the merohant class should endear I your to stimulate interest locally » our own manufactured goods. There was no reason why that should not be done, but what maa needed waa population and the full use of our own raw material. If «uch did come about, tho ideal of the old pioneers of the Dominion would be realised, and New Zealand , would be able to hand down to the children to come the grand and free j inheritance which waa carved out for J them from tibe wildernees. 1