Steel Industry
Sir, —After the gross breach of faith on the bicycle industry, we now have another. Addressing Federated Farmers, Mr Marshall promised that after 10 years the industry would be required to become competitive even if world prices fell. He now says that if it is not then competitive, it will receive continued protection. No words that you would publish can adequately describe such action. That the industry will be economic is hardly credible. The Japanese rejected the ironsands and bought Western Australian ore. Dr. Louisan, an American metallurgist, speaking in Dunedin, strongly advocated,purchasing iron ore and siting the industry down here adjacent to electric power sources. Many Nationalists will strongly deplore this, but will they speak now in favour of effective action or remain forever silent?—Yours, etc., V, WILKINSON.
Ashburton, July 3, 1965. [The Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr Marshall) said: “The ideas in the letter are so confused and inaccurate that it is not something to which I could give a brief reply.”]
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 14
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