Chipboard Industry
Sir, —On Saturday you quoted Mr Marshall, Overseas Trade Minister, as saying “Public opinion is awakened and is perhaps a little impatient on the need for export trade promotion.” In an adjoining column on the same page a Westland delegate to the South Island Local Bodies’ Association complained of Government neglect of a Westland industry with an export potential thus: “The chipboard factory proposal is still up in the air.
There are no signs of the import licences for the machinery being issued.” I remember reading of these people appealing to the Government for machinery licences six or eight months ago. While this incompetent Government hands over the councils, boards, and so on the job it was elected to do, promising export industries are stifled and discouraged. Give me Labour’s progressiveness any day.—Yours, etc., T. H. BITMEAD. April 3, 1962. [The Minister of Overseas Trade (Mr Marshall) had no comment to make.]
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29797, 13 April 1962, Page 8
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154Chipboard Industry Press, Volume CI, Issue 29797, 13 April 1962, Page 8
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