"HANG THEIR INDEPENDENCE."
UNWELCOME SUGGESTION. Hγ. D. Robertson, at the ironmasters' deputation to the Minister for Customs .(the Hon. R. M'Konzie) yesterday, naively suggested that, if the Minister would see that local bodies, in carrying out works, specified that all materiaJ used should bo of colonial manufacture, it would help to revive, the languishing iron manufacturing trade moro successfully than tho building up of a tariff wall. Every week, he i;Ji, articles wero landed at the wharves irivi overseas which could be made locally without additional cost. Tho Minister'. I agree with you to a certain extent, but, at the same time, it would take away tho independence, of I ho local bodies. Mr. Robertson: Hang their independence! (Laughter.) The Minister: I havo enough trouble with the local bodies now without showing them where to get tho material for their works! (Laughter.)
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1154, 15 June 1911, Page 4
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