MANUFACTURERS SUPPORT BILL

Northern Advocate, 2 October 1936, Page 6

MANUFACTURERS SUPPORT BILL

ORDER OUT OF CHAOS [Per Press Association. — Copyright .] WELLINGTON. This Day. The president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, Mr. D. Henrys, said yesterday that he definitely and whole-heartedly was in support of the Industrial Efficiency Bill. The general principles of the measure were endorsed by the manufacturers’ council last week, and a number of amendments had been proposed for the purpose of making the machinery of it safer and more effective. Mr. J. T. Spears, vice-president of the Federation, said that he also supported the measure, which was designed to evolve economic order out of economic chaos. He was unable to withhold sympathy from the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon: D. G. Sullivan, in the earnestness with which the problem was being tackled. Mr. F. N. Ambler, president-elect of the Auckland association, said the Bill undoubtedly would be objected to by business men, who still believed in the old ways of the jungle, but he strongly recommended manufacturers to approach the scheme in a spirit of co-op-eration. The Wellington Association, following two days meetings, finally voted in favour of giving wholehearted support to the Bill, subject to one amendment which, though important, did not in any way conflict with the declared policy of the Government. Mr Matheson, president of the Wellington Association, said yesterday that he saw in the Bill a wonderful opportunity for progress in the manufacturing industry, and he recommended fellow-indus-trialists to give it support.