Freedom Of Choice Urged In Location Of Industries

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29206, 17 May 1960, Page 17

Freedom Of Choice Urged In Location Of Industries

> tally supporting any move u, the establishment of • wood* Zm and paper iwtadtrjr for the ffiwtion of the forest resources jjforth Canterbury, the council 5 fee Canterbury Manufacturers’ test eve-ning carried Ration upholding the right of tinte enterprise, whether or L fee industry was hcenabd, to Mfet its capital and to ranted* i Jtefetewr locality U thoaght for the well-being and pros.gfa of toe indusky concerned b aoore the financial success enLged. Ibe association had learned fife regret the decision of the yeetßed Industries Committee to ■tenone a decision on the pro£■■l for the mill to be estate&ed in Canterbury, said Mr R. G Ttatee, who presided. "Urgency ternate now be pressed u the congdetton of the survey j aUtie timber resources being fencby officers of toe Forest Sersaid Mr Pearce. "This evifence will be vital in the further esiew by the committee. To Gtsterbury the growing of trees i, igportant to our manufacturjjg Industrie*, particularly as pne of the major users in the jofeh Island of paper requirepeots are situated here, the manufacturing centre, I an rate in saying, in the South the question was not of oonlerraDcy of the timbers of Canarbury but the best use of the (inters. said Mr Pearce. For isae years now in Canterbury fee growing stock available for tfegiig had been greater than the demand and there had been very little market for it “It is pleasing to note that Mr A. B. Entrican (Director of Forfei) has himself said that lhe decision on Canterbury is in effect « deferrment, not a refusal,’ ” ad Mr Pearce. Manufacturers mold welcome the establishgeot of such a plant in Canterbay. The time had come when manufacturers in New Zealand boold really take up the cudfete, said Mr E. C. Munt. What right had the Government to turn round and decide on the industry, where it was going and bar it was going to spend its uaaey? If industry was to derelop. it had to have freedom, ft was for private enterprise to decide whether there was a teed for an industry.

‘l&anufacturers have to take • wnn stssto and stop the Gova. *•*’ ftiUhapq a body lite the manutartuim's’ Amrtotiuu should eng * *wtoty,«»ert from JSSSES & hte evidence, Mr Entrican khdjmay admitted that the ForMa administration 2? Sy W to the mark, ®tod Mr F. S, Taylor. Mr F.n®“Jtor reports were in of Canterbury, yet under crosi-exafti motion bud s&ich until you see my report this year and it will be in favour erf Nelson/’ Tbc chany wan Apparently, Nelson had grown a larger area of trees overnight. The -matter by Mr Pearce sup-1 porting toe rights of private enterprise to make its own choice of toeatum was carried unanimously.