CO-OPERATION IN MANUFACTURING

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26265, 9 November 1950, Page 6

CO-OPERATION IN MANUFACTURING

N.Z. PARTY TO VISIT. AUSTRALIA

(New Zealand Press Association) , AUCKLAND. November 8. More than 100 New Zealand manu- ■ facturers—so from Auckland—will» visit Australia next April at thf invitation of the Australian Federal Government. They will study Australian industry and new technical processes. Arrangements for the tour wera completed yesterday bv Mr R. Halzard. ths Australian Trade Comaiasioner. before he left Auckland for Wellington. He had discussions with officers of the Auckland Manufacturers Association. , The members of the party will travel bbth ways in two chartered aircraft They will be giv«n civic and state receptions in Sydney. They will then sp|lt into three groups to visit lactones in Victoria. New South Wales, ana South Australia in turn. 2 "Much of New Zealand’s plant equipment, and raw material comes from Australia,” said Mr S. Howard Hunter, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, to-day. ‘‘With the present disturbed international situation Australia and New Zealand must get even closer together in production methods and co-opera-tive manufacturing." The New Zealand federation has proposed that a party of Australian manufacturers should study induatry in New Zealand.