FARM AND FACTORY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1926, Page 13

FARM AND FACTORY

WORK HAND IN HAND

MR, M'LEOD'S POLIO:

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. Reference to the attitude he intends to adopt in tho administration of the portfolio of Indusries and Commerce was made by the Hon. A. D. M'Lcod fast evening. The Minister .said that lie had taken over the portfolio last session, and was not yet fully acquainted -vith it. Ho was .dive to the fact that more than one industry in tho country was working under extreme difficulty, as were hundreds of farmers. If it could be shown after the fullest investigation that the secondary industries of New Zealand were capable of employing sufficient labour at a living wage, without raising the price of their productions, nobody would be moro willing than he to assist them. If on the other hand, by sheltering behind tariff walls, the gain was to be assimilated by the man who invested his capital, and tl'O price of the hundred and one artiefes necessary to the primary producer were raised, there was going to be serious trouble. It was realised that New Zealand could never hope to become great on primary industries alone,: and, if it were going to assume a place in the forefront of trade in tho Pacific, the primary and secondary industries would have to bo developed side by side. If it could bo shown that the secondary industries were suffering because of cheaply laboured material being dumped into tho country, reasonable protection was warranted.