NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20199, 8 March 1929, Page 14

NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRY

> -GOVERNMENT. ASSISTANCE, p. MINISTER STATES POLICY. of timber trade. [IIV TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] ™ CHMSTCHURCH. Thursday. ...The Minister of Industries and Commerce, Hon. J. G. Cobbe, arrived at - J'hristchurch to-day to continue his inquiry- concerning the cash order trading system. He paid visits of inspection to a,.number of factories in the city, and • was- accompanied by Mr. J. W. Collins, Secretary of the Department of Industries and Commerce. Mr. H. Bradley, president of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association, Mr. E. 11. Marriilr, organiser for the association, and Mr. D. Colquhoun, local officer for the Department of Industries and Commerce. "This visit lias been quito an eyeopener,'- said the Minister. "It has been a" revelation to mc." One of tho reasons, Tie thought, why there was not a greater demand for New Zealand-made goods was that people were ignorant as to the quality and range of the tilings that were being made, lie said the Government was out to help New Zealand industries .as far as it reasonably could. - "Mr. Collins knows," added the Minister, "what 1 have been doing in connection with the timber industry. This I. hope to make known in the course of a day or two. It is tho determination of the Government to give preference to goods produced in New Zealand and manufactured in New Zealand." The Minister's inquiry will be continued to-morrow, when Mr. W. Machin will give evidence on behalf of the Retail Drapers'. Association.