PRIMARY PRODUCTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 39, 14 August 1926, Page 12

PRIMARY PRODUCTS

POSITION NOT GOOD

ECONOMY UEGED.

The annual report of tho "Wellington Employers' Association urges the adoption of economical methods if tho production and marketing of primary pro.ducts is to be satisfactory.

"THe result of tho production and marketing of the primary products of the Dominion during the year has proved less satisfactory in tlio main than has been experienced for a number of years past," says the report. "The Government returns show that the total value of our exports for tho year 1925 is £2,805,865 in excess of the value of the Dominion's imports for the same period, and the ruling rates in the Home markets clearly indicate that there is no immediate prospect of prices increasing. If this country is to maintain its good standing and forward place in the world's markets, it is felt it can only do so by the adoption of economical methods and careful husbandry, by the exercise of thrift on the part of the people, and by the giving by labour of its best efforts and production.

"It is pleasing to state that our secondary industries are consistently increasing in number, and are adopting up-to-date methods of manufacture, and it is believed they will continue to do so, provided no further legislative restrictions or burdens are placed upon them. It is aserted that over-importa-tion of some classes of goods in particular has had a serious effect on tho financial position of the Dominion, but it has to be recognised that many of these importations have resulted in the employment of a large number of workera, and the expenditure of considerable capital in buildings and equipment."