CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Star, Issue 21632, 30 January 1934, Page 1

CORRESPONDENCE

LOCAL INDUSTRIES. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l consider the Manufacturers’ Association is deserving of the thanks of the community for the active interest it takes in all our industries and for making the best' of every opportunity to permit prominent visitors to inspect these industries. I think, however, that a mistake is made in visiting successful and flourishing industries, and that the Prime Minister and others should visit foundries and factories which are working on short time, with greatly decreased staffs, and let our visitors see these modem factories, with thousands of pounds of machinery lying idle, and impress on them the necessity of assisting to get these industries ■on their feet again, and thus give employment to skilled tradesmen and others who are unemployed. The sight of these large shops, practically deserted and capable of doing so much, should impress the Government with the urgent need of doing something to assist the manufacturer during this difficult period. Helping the Canterbury farmers for damage by hailstorms and the Central Otago fruitgrowers for frost damage is quite good and necessary, but who helps the .storekeepers and manufacturers, who are just 'as keenly up against it as any others? I suggest to the Manufacturers’ Association the need of visiting and doing all it can to assist the manufacturer who is not so busy and so prosperous as those usually visited by distinguished visitors.—l am, etc., January 29. Locai. Supporter.