WAR AGAINST CANCER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20723, 17 November 1930, Page 10

WAR AGAINST CANCER.

CAMPAIGN FOR FUNDS. MANUFACTURERS CO-OPERATE'. EXHIBITION AT DUNEDIN. [by TELEORAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIA-Tr.y/J DUNEDIN. Saturday. The carnival and exhibition in aid of tho cancer campaign and organised by the Dunedin Manufacturers' Association was opened in tho Drill Hall, Kensington, this aftornoon, by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Hon. P. A. do la Perrollo.

About 8000 square feet of space are occupied by stalls and practically every manufacturer in Dunedin is represented. There .are a number of working exhibits and every stall display articles of local manufacture.

The Minister referred in terms of praise to the decision of tho Manufacturers' Association to join with tho medical profession in its war against cancer. Ho said that 1467 persons died in New Zealand last year from cancer, and in the past 10 years cancer caused the deaths of 12,212 persons in New Zealand. In tho light of those figures it would be seen how valuable was the effort on the part of the association to raise funds to fight the disease.

" Our hope for the arrest of cancer," said the Minister, " must be based on two essentials, the early recognition of the disease and its early treatment, and the immediate provision of sufficient funds to enable research work to be conducted and to ensure ample supplies of radium and X-ray equipment for successful treatment of the disease."'

Although New Zealand was essentially a primary producing country, its manufacturing industries -were by no moans insignificant. They were steadily increasing, and, in 1928-29, gave employment to 83,680 people, who received £17,000,000 in wages. The value of raw materials used was £60,000,000, while £33,000,000 was the value added by the process of manufacture. The total value of the output was £93,00,000. Of the 83,680 persons engaged in manufacturing industries, 63 per cent., or 63,050 persons, were engaged in real manufacture, that was manufacture not closely associated with the great primary industries such as meat freezing and sawmilling. * While he believed that for many years the prosperity and development of New Zealand would bo inseparably wrapped up with the farming industries, said th» Minister, it was to the manufacturing industries that they must look in great degree for employment for a largo number of young people leaving school. Thft representative nature of exhibits would give visitors an (lea of the extensive variety and excellent quality of goods produced in New Zealand.. He had no doubt that many would feel surprised upon realising what a large number of commodities were actually made in New Zealand.. • -

Sir' Louis Barnctt said the action of the Otago manufacturers in coming to the aid of:the Cancer Research Committee at so timely a season filled the-committee with gratitude. This evening the public thronged the building ahd the scene presented was •one of activity and gaiety.