CONFIDENCE FELT

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 137, 6 December 1935, Page 10

CONFIDENCE FELT

SECONDARY INDUSTRIES

NO OBSTACLES EXPECTED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

The confidence which manufacturers feel about securing encouragement from the Labour Government was indicated by Mr. C. H. Burson, president of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association, when addressing the annual meeting last night. Mr. Burson said it was only reasonable to assume that manufacturers would not have any obstacles placed in their path which would retard their progress, but that everything possible -would be done to encourage their development. The manufacturers, for their part, would not be found wanting in bringing factories and plants up to the highest possible state of efficiency. He described the sales tax as the most iniquitous form of taxation ever placed on the Statute Book, and said it was reasonable to assume that it would be removed at the earliest possible opportunity.

Mr. A. M. Hollander, seconding the motion to adppt.the report, said any assistance which the Government gave manufacturers would be reciprocated. There was an opportunity, he claimed, for quite a long period of reflation to take the place of the deflation which had been going on since 1930. If the new Government would see that the reflationary movement, of which New Zealand had had a taste during the last year was accelerated, it could have nothing but beneficial effects for every member of the community.