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Evening Star, Issue 25172, 11 May 1944, Page 5

When speaking to a Palmerston North audience on rehabilitation and reconstruction, the Minister of (Rehabilitation (Major C. F. Skinner) said he could not subscribe to the theory that New Zealand could, not compete with other countries on the world's industrial markets because of the distance of the Dominion from those markets. It could be done if the material content of an article were high and the labour content low. He had iu mind softwoods which grew in New Zealand faster than in any other country. Wallboard could be exported profitably, and also such things as multiple-walled paper bags—bags made of paper like three-ply. He said jthat he had sub? merged cement in one such bag for 24 hours and the only portion of the' cement which became damp was wliero 'the bag had been crushed. Plans wera afoot to make complete use of theDominion's softwoods.