“NEW HOPE FOR FUTURE”

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 1 March 1938, Page 10

“NEW HOPE FOR FUTURE”

Adjustments Welcomed By Manufacturers SUFFICIENCY QUESTIONED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, February 28. ‘‘The gazetting of the tariff adjustments is the very welcome first instalment of the fulfilment of the Government’s promise to safeguard the New Zealand manufacturing industries,” said Mr Rocke O’Shea, general secretary of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, in an interview tonight. “It is impossible, however, without detailed consideration, to state, first, whether all industries have been covered, and, second, whether in the case of each of them the protection is sufficient to balance the increased burdens which local industry is carrying. “These tariff adjustments will give the manufacturing industries and their workers new hope for the future, as constituting tangible evidence of the Government’s intention to see that many hundreds of thousands of workers and their dependents are not sacrificed for the benefit of the overseas operative,” he added. “These adjustments are gazetted after a series of negotiations in which the Hon. W. Nash, Minister for Marketing, and the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister for Industries and Commerce, have worked hard in the interests of the Dominion as a whole, and of the: manufacturing industries and their workers. The Department of Industries and Commerce has spared no effort to assist industry. “We are greatly Indebted to the Comptroller of Customs and his staff, who carried out an amount of work which those not connected with the actual negotiations would find it duncult to realise. Throughout the whole period they have co-operated withthe New Zealand Manufacturers Federation in a manner which has been most acceptable indeed.”