NEW INDUSTRIES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1939, Page 8

NEW INDUSTRIES

CHOICE OF SITES. MEMBERS' OVERTURES. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, July 20. Several members oi : the House of Representatives have endeavoured to bring to the attention of prospective manufacturers the importance of their respective localities as centres lor the csiab.ishnient of new industries, they have put up arguments against too great centralisation, as much of the recent development has been in tne vicinity of Wellington. lion. W. E. Barnard (Speaker) used his right to approach the Government in tins way, his suggestion being that the Minister of Industries and Commerce, when considering tlie licensing ot new industries, should have regard to tlie factors of the better distnoution of population, and the safeguarding of essential industries against possible enemy attack. “file modern tendency,” stated AllBarnard, "is tor new industries to crowd into two or three industrial towns which may he open to attack from enemy aircraft, and the erection of a factory at Ror./itui, Wellington, for the manufacture of aeroplanes, is a striking instance of the present trend.”

Hon. 1). G. Sullivan pointed out in his reply that there are limitations to his powers in tlie way of arranging distribution of industries, as they apply only to those which have been declared subject to licensing under the Industrial Efficiency Act. “Twenty-one industries have been so gazetted,” tlie Minister continued, "but this number includes several distributive industries and, in tact, emgraocs only three which were at the time of licensing, or are at present, entirely new to the Dominion. The manufacture of aeroplanes is not subject to license, so taut the site tor tlie manufactory is a matter for the manufacturer himself. W here, however, the industry is a h'eensed one the Bureau of Industry is required in considering the application to have regard to the economics of the proposed site in relation to markets, power, raw materials, labour, etc., and these questions are very thoroughly examined in each case.”