Appeal to Fill the Gap

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 96, 26 April 1939, Page 4

Appeal to Fill the Gap

Making up for Import Deficiencies

BOUQUETS AND BRICKBATS Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. An appeal to New Zealanders to help fill the gap caused by import control was issued by the Prime Minister, Rt Hon. M. J. Savage, in addressing the staff of one of three factories he visited in Auckland on Monday. He assured both employers and employees that they would get their equitable share of any increase in production. “We have a long way to go," Mr. Savage safd. “We began by selecting things to come from übroad aud we want you to fill the gap caused by the import restriction. 1 have to see to it that y r ou are not doing this in vain." Defeating Ends Won’t Do. “The question of raw materials Ims been mentioned/ ’ Mr. .Savage said later in another address on similar lines. “Without them you cannot do the job and our task is to see that they are provided. Some pcoplo get 'the wind up’ and want to get in six months enough tor 18 months or two years. If everybody does that wo are just where we were before. At tho same time it is our job to see that the raw materials are there. Will Go Rest of Journey. “We will get a lot of bouquets thrown at us iu tho next few weeks—bouquets with bricks—but we have survived up to tho prosent and I think vve will be able to go the remainder of the journey. You have to fill the gap created by import control and it is up to me and the Government to see that you arc not doing it in vain. It is our job to see to it that you are getting your share and we have to co-operate as never before. ’ ’ Mr. Savage added that his job wns clear and Iris conscience was clear, in spito of the “bricks. ’’ He was more confident thau ever before that the people of New Zealand would stand bohind the Government in the building of a nation in the southern seas.