INCREASED IMPORTS.
WARNING OF DANGER, Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, July 20. “We cannot continue to import at the present increasing rate without grave injury to New Zealand industry and the employment position.” stated Mr Jn mes Hong, past president of the exports there had fallen by £40,000: import statistics, he said, revealed an increase of over £l/.000 000 since 1934. The costs of New Zealand industrial production had been heavily raised with no attempt to offset this bv extra safeguarding. In the last two years the imports from Australia had increased bv £1.703.000, while our Manufacturers’ Federation, to-day. The
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 20 July 1937, Page 2
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99INCREASED IMPORTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 196, 20 July 1937, Page 2
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