FACTORIES VISITED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 3

FACTORIES VISITED

PREMIER AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Assciation. AUCKLAND, March 23. Hie Prime Minister (lit. Hon. M. J. Savage,) in Inrilierance of his aim lor increasing local industry, inspected lour more factories in Auckland today. He was accompanied by the Minister oi industries and Commerce (Hon. D. G. Sullivan), the Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. W. E. Parry), members of Parliament and others. Mr Savage will visit four other faetojjes to-morrow. ‘•Nothing is going to come into this country to act against the interests of those building industry here,” said the Prime .Minister, in addressing the principals and staff of the Australian Glass .Manufacturers’ Coy., Ltd., in Penrose.

An .assurance that raw material would bo available for the carrying on of local industry was given by Mr Savage. He said that for the future he could not say exactly what the Government would do next to protect given industries. ”1 want to see those doing work getting the benefit of whatever increased production there is,” he continued. “Unless increased production is reflected in the incomes of all concerned, we are not doing our job. Everything 1 cam do to make your conditions of life better is going to Ire done and I am going to apologise to no one lor saying that.” Mr Sullivan, in a brief address, said that, never before in New Zealand or in any other country had a Prime Minister gone into industries and factories. gathered the staff and spoken to them on the importance of industry as Mr Savage had done. The Government was depending upon the success of the workers in increasing production.

A tribute to women in industry was paid by Mr Savage when lie .spoke at the Otahuhu railway workshops. He said women could tend a machine as well as men'and women had a full part to play in the campaign of building the nation.

Mr Savage received enthusiastic receptions everywhere. Repeated cheers greeted the official party on its arrival at the Otahuhu railway workshop* where the 1700 employees turned out in force to greet the Prime Minister, who was escorted from his ear to the dais by a massed party of workmen.