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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 12, 8 October 1927, Page 13

“The bulk of onr imports must be paid for by our exports, and, as most of our primary exports are bought by Great Britain, it is .>nly fair that y.e should buv all we can from the Old Country and trade all we can within the Empire,” says the annual report cf the Auckland Employers’ Assxiiat’on. “It is a sound policv to have a credit balance, if bv importing less wd en< enraging tlie growth of our. secondary industries, we epcourage British nrannt.icturers to establish their own factories In this country and most of our unemployment would disappear. At the present momeut skilled tradesmen are seeking wcik. while our factories and workshops are running short time, seeking lor orders to increase their output. How is this output to be increased?. It c.ertatnh cannot be increased by importing goods at the rate of 51,090,W0. every weex, and if we still continue this suicidal policv we are looking for trouble. Beopk should give some thought to the goods that are made tn tiieb own coum trv, instead of accenting imfurtea goeds ns every pound’s wot th of goods pun based from a foreign country is keeping foreign workers employed, whilst workers in New Zealand are idle.”