SOUTH AFRICA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue XXXXI, 16 June 1920, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA

V REMARKABLE GROWTH OF

INDUSTRIES.

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(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.)

CAPETOWN, June 14

Speaking at the animal Congress of "the Federated Chamber of Industries, "the Minister of Mines attenKon "to a remarkable growth of industries in the last five years. The output of manufactured goods was nfow valued -at; £61,000,000. consuming: £34,000.000 -«f raw materials, of wh'ch 53 per cent was of South African origin. The key industries were being developed tramdlv.

On the question of State assistarfce he did not th;nk the State should undertake to run industries. Assistance •should only be given to imdnstries for national pun>oses; not to thos^ conducted in private interests. He announced the apptvntTnent of an industrial adviser to the Government in the person of Dr Venderbers;, a South African with considerable, experience "in the "United States.