‘Policy change’ needed
New Zealand-manufac-tured exports have no future under present Government policy, according to Mr Robert Stewart, the director of Skope Industries, Ltd. Speaking at a national exporters’ convention in Queenstown, Mr Stewart urged delegates to indicate strongly to the Government that a change in policy was required to save New Zealand manufacturing. Skope Industries produces electric heaters,
commercial glass doors and refrigerators and, more recently, large luxury aluminium yachts. The export of manufactured goods had clearly created jobs, Mr Stewart said. “The evidence is the dramatic rise in unemployment and job-shedd-ing as manufacturing exports decline. “This decline is now 28 per cent of total export for the nine months to March, 1987.”
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Press, 24 July 1987, Page 9
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