SECONDARY INDUSTRIES.

Evening Star, Issue 18925, 27 April 1925, Page 11

SECONDARY INDUSTRIES.

CANTERBURY'S SUPPORT. [Special to the ‘Star.’] CHRISTCHURCH, April 27. At Friday night's mooting of the Canterbury Industrial Association, Mr IT- B. Host moved —“dhat in view of the letter of April 4 from the president of the Dunedin Exhibition, and also in view _ of tho fact that ex-on oni v countries exhibits will not ho accepted by the Exhibition authorities in Dunedin, the resolution ot October 22, 1924, be rescinded, with a view to the executive taking immediately such tnrt'cer action as may be considered advisable an the interests of Now Zealand in (his tries.” . In supporting the motion, Air •!. A. Frostiek said They wore particularly Jnteresled in educating tho people of New /calami in tins belief or the idea that if they bought goods they required that were produced in New Zealand they would hove nothing to lie ashamed of. and would loso nothing by giving preference, to.their own people? He dealt at souk; length with an endeavor made to restrict the Exhi utinn to an Imperial Exhibition, ond said the majority in Dunedin had determined _ it should be international in scope. Ho indicated that: there were strong grounds for allowing exhibits from, countries that were Britain’s allies during the Client War. To refrain from supporting the secondary industries .section, lie said, would lie playing right into the hands of nations that were trying to beat New Zealand in eomme.rical competition. They would be punishing themselves, and would make it far easier for foreign nations to como in. By withdrawing, individually and collectively from taking part in the Exhibition th'oy would bo showing _ to their own pe,opln, that becciusc of foreign nations coming in, they were ashamed or wore afraid to show their own produc-

t-ions. The fact that they would have to show against foreign countries should be the strongest incentive to them _to exhibit. Ho believed that the association had been right in making a protest against the Exhibition being international in character, but they had been beaten on that point, and as the prosperity of New Zealand was of the greatest importance to them, they should try to make the secondaiy industries court something to be proud of. The motion was agreed to, there being only one dissentient voice. It was further resolved that the executive expresses the opinion thot the industries of New Zealand in general, and Canterbury in particular, can be best served by the' Canterbury Industrial Association offering its unqualified _ support to the Exhibition as far as tho New Zealand industrial section is concerned.