DOMINION'S INDUSTRIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19389, 26 July 1926, Page 8

DOMINION'S INDUSTRIES.

MANUFACTURES ESSENTIAL.

VIEWS OF HON. A. D. McLEOD. [BY telegraph.—press association.] WELLINGTON, Saturday. Speaking at a dinner to the Winter Show exhibitors, the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Industries and Commerce, combated the idea which has long existed —that the interests of the men on the land and of the manufacturers were opposed. For years, he said, he had used every occasion to point out that New Zealand would become truly great on primary production alone. After the session he proposed to go round and become thoroughly acquainted with the Dominion's industries. He liked to find things out for himself and not to accept everything told him. Mr. M.cLeod hoped that New Zealanders would not establish industries merely to be played with. They must be run in a businesslike manner, and their owners must not be running continually to the Government for protection. The raw material was in the country and its utilisation in secondary industries would absorb labour. He agreed with Sir Frank Heath that research was necessary in secondary, as well as in primary industries. Mr. McLeod thought that the country's exports were quite creditable, but there had been too much importation, and this was a point that needed careful watching.