NEW INDUSTRIES

Grey River Argus, 30 November 1938, Page 7

NEW INDUSTRIES

FOR NEW ZEALAND Government’s Projects [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 29. “It is now many years since our sister Dominion, Canada, grew into a ! great industrial nation. Australia took i its great step not many years ago. It is now the turn of New Zealand. I 'feel that you are—that.l and the Government and the people as a whole are—on the point of seeing this country take its big step forward indusI trially,” said the Minister of IndusI tries and Commerce, (Hon, D. G. Sul'livan), when officially opening the ani nual conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association in Wellington to-day. • “The great necessity is that all conI cerned shall pull their weight by coI operation,” the Minister said. “The I scope is there ! The will is present ! 'lt now remains to harness our forces, and direct them into paths of orderly, but none the less continuous, expan- : sion.” I The recent statement by the Prime Minister, (Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage), that the Government was expediting the I preparation of new plans for an in- ! crease in production, was recalled by Mr Sullivan, who said that he had set j up a Central Executive of the Bureau I of Industry to give special attention to i this question. The Executive would concentrate more intensively on plans for industrial expansion and for the establishment of new industries.