BIG STEP DUE

Evening Star, Issue 23128, 30 November 1938, Page 15

BIG STEP DUE

i_ i —— — —_____ Dominion's Industrial Expansion Must Harness All Forces “ It is now many years since our sister Dominion, Canada, grew into a great industrial nation, and Australia took its great step not many years ago. It is now the turn of New Zealand. 1 feel that you, the Government, and the people as a whole are on the point of seeing this country take its big step forward industrially,” said the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Hon. D. G. Sullivan), officially opening the annual conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation in Wellington yesterday. “ The great necessity Is that all concerned should pull their weight by co-operation,” the Minister said. “ The scope is there, if the will is present. It now remains to harness our forces and direct them into the paths of orderly but none the less continuous expansion.” A recent statement by the Prime Minister that the Government was expediting the preparation of new plans for an increase in production, was recalled by Mr Sullivan, who said he had set up a central executive of the Bureau of Industry to give special attention to this question. The executive would concentrate more intensively on plans for industrial expansion and the establishment of new industries.