The Hawera Star. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1925. BRITISH INDUSTRY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 16 July 1925, Page 4

The Hawera Star.

THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1925. BRITISH INDUSTRY.

Delivered e\ery evening by 5 oVlnck *n Hawera, Manaia, Normanby, Okaiawa, Kitham, Manga toki, Kaponga, Alton, TDirleyvi.ie, Patea, Waverley, Moknia, Witakainara, Ohangai. Me re in ere. Fraser Koad, au Ararata.

I'iieie is some eonmort in the assurance or nil© i/aii(,-ur convinictee on lnuusto and l«vuc tmi'O BmtUAii, manutaciurens are rexamilng tneir .share ot trie worm » custom. From the summary ot tiie committee’s findings published iu our cable news to-day, it seems that the decrease in the volume of Great Britain's export trade is mainly attributable to the growth of local manufacture in the countries constituting the recognised overseas market. That miay: he accepted as la satisfactory explanation of the position; hut it does not offer, nor even suggest, a solution of the unemployment problem in the Old '(Amntry. in order that «ho may recover her old-time prosperity, in order that her whole industrial population shall be fully employed, Great Britain must either develop and extend her markets, or reduce the number of -hands available for work. in both of these directions the Dominions dan and should come to her aid. Exhortations to buy British goods have been so common of late that there is little need to dwell on that point, save perhaps to note the earnest endeavour now being made by Home manufacturers to meet the special needs of colonial buyers. As regards the industrial population of the Empire, the position appears to bethis : the people a-P& in Britain and an increasing percentage of the factories and mills in the Dominions. Since the mountain will not go to Mahomet, the sensible plan is to facilitate his pilgrimage to it: in other words, to face the task of transferring the industrial population of the Elmpire from the Old Land to the new. It is not probable that the Dominions, having planted their infant industries, will be found ready to pluck them up by the roots in order to restore to Britain her lost- manufacturing glory; but it is reasonable to ask them to find employment for qualified British operatives so long as there are places to be filled As a. matter of fact-, employers in the woollen'industry in New Zealand have in the past made (special arrangements to .secure supplies of expert- labour from the woollen districts of Britain, and this not with the idea, of relieving unemiploYment at Home iso miic-H as of building up the success of their mills in the Dominion. If. by assisting British emigrants to New Zealand and Australia, where work in their own industry awaits them, we can at once better their position, lay the foundation of a “quality’’ reputation for our colonial manufactures, and relieve the economic pressure at Home, we should not hesitate. Of course the thing could not begone on a grand scale — the Dominions would have lo guard against passing the saturation point, which in our own case is possibly not far off—hut every little would heir; and. if ever Britain needed our help, she needs it to-day.