TEN TRADE COMMANDMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 19196, 12 March 1926, Page 4

TEN TRADE COMMANDMENTS

FOR HEW ZEALAND CITIZENS “ New Zealanders, whether yon be manufacturers, farmers, or consumers, these ten commandments should observed by you,” declares ‘ Now Zeiv-laml-made,’ the handbook issued by the New Zealand Secondary Industries Court. . “The excellent economic results achieved in Canada by the persistent circulation of the so-called ‘ Ton Commandments of Trade ’ throughout that dominion suggest the advisability of a somewhat similar propaganda in New Zealand. The following ‘ten maxims’ are submitted lor the consideration ol New Zealand citizens;— “1. Buy New Zealand-made and New Zealand-produced goods, and insist on getting them. “ By doing this wo shall help develop the homo market, encourage local factory expansion, provide employment for now population, and create bigger and hotter markets for all kinds ol primary produce and raw materials. National progress depends upon more workers, greater production, new lactones and enlargement of old factories, and better agricultural markets. “2. Restrict importations to necessities which arc not yet or cannot be produced in New Zealand, “3. Produce to the utmost in field and factory.

“ Increased production means now wealth available for all, and is essential if we are to meet the obligations brought upon ns by the war. “4. Co-operate,.Specialise, and standardise. • : “These are the means to maximum production of high quality goods at the minimum cost. ■

“ 5. Develop export markets. “ Export trade gives stability to trade., reduces unit costs, benefits domestic consumers, affords employment to factories and workers in times of depression, and corrects adverse exchange by improving the trade balance. “ 6. Utilise New Zealand services.

“Ship by New Zealand steamers; travel by them. Build up your own mercantile marine.

“7. Carry right through with the process of New Zealand manufacture. “Millions of pounds are lost annually to the dominion, and especially to New Zealand wage-earners, by the exportation of raw materials and semimanufactured products. • “ 8. Use every aid science can give for the determination and development of natural resources. “ Industrial research will reveal new wealth, improve industrial processes, and help relievo our economic dependence upon outside resources for essentials.

t “ 9. Make quality the hall mark of New Zealand products. “ A benefit tariff demands quality equal to imported goods, good workmanship, and maximum effort in production.

, “10. Use the tariff, but depend upon efficiency. “ Efficient management, pins efficient production, means quality, high production, and high values.”