PROTECTIVE DUTIES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 March 1926, Page 5

PROTECTIVE DUTIES.

SUCCESS IN AUSTRALIA

NEW INDUSTRIES MAY APPEAR

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. MELBOURNE, March 3. In the House of Representatives, th e Hon. H. E. Pratten (Minister of Customs) opening the debate on the new tari duties validating the Act passed last September, authorising thei collection of new duties for one year, .said it was the earnest desire of the Government to see that the further development of secondary industries should not be hampered. Six months, had elapsed since the new duties were first collected, and very considerable progress had been made in the industries affected. . , ■ , The new tariff had revived the whole textile industry. It had. been given fresh hope a 1 ] round, and the Government’s action had been fully justified through a large amount of additional employment having been found and projected. The new' duties also stopped the closing down of many important engineering establishments, enabling the- industry tb now undertake a much greater proportion of the work required in Austraha than previously. If Parliament confirmed the duties he believed that within a Jrear further textile factories would be established in the Commonwealth by at jeast three of the leading British manufacturers. He concluded by suggesting that the migration of industry should be- linked with the migration of people.