INDUSTRIALISTS CONFER.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLII, Issue 1736, 11 February 1921, Page 5

INDUSTRIALISTS CONFER.

I SOME SWEEPING PROPOSALS.

(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night.

At the Industrial Conference papers dealing with a forward movement were read by Messrs C. A. Wilson and J. Findlay, of Auckland. The former advocated a publicity scheme on American lines. Mr Findlay advocated insurance against unemployment, employers and workers contributing to a fund to be subsidised by the Government, and also a superannuation fund. “That efforts be made to increase secondary industries commensurate with the commercial position of the country,” was the text of a paper by Mr G. White, Canterbury. He pointed out that in 1917 the imports of wearing apparel, boots, iron and steel, leather, hosiery and other lines totalled £5,732,596; thug New Zealand was giving other countries £2,866,298, this being the difference between the manufacturers’ price and the imported price. The title of the organisation has been altered to the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association Incorporated.