N.Z. MANUFACTURES

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1934, Page 5

N.Z. MANUFACTURES

CO-ORDINATION PROPOSALS. [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, November 15. Prominent among the questions considered at the conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, which was continued to-day, was a proposal that the manufacturers’ organisation should adopt a definite scheme of “facilitating the co-ordina-tion of industrial units with a view to increasing still further the efficiency of manufacturing industries as a whole.” After prolonged discussion, this policy was adopted by the unanimous vote and referred to the Federation Council to be finalised. The general scheme consists of four parts. First, it provides for unification of many Government Departments which are now concerned with manufacturing industries, namely, the Industries Department, Department of Industrial Research, Labour Department, Marine Department (inspection of machinery) and several others. The second part of the proposal provides for the setting up of a permanent Industrial Commission. Among other functions this Commission would promote and assist in working out by various sections of industry of schemes designed for co-ordination of productive units, foi* safeguards against over-capitalisation, and introduction of excessive plant, and for various other means of ensuring that manufacturing industries shall expand on a sound economic basis increasing theii* efficiency and eliminating certain uneconomic forms of competition, which are neither profitable to industry nor beneficial to the consuming public.