LOCAL INDUSTRIES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10211, 22 February 1919, Page 8

LOCAL INDUSTRIES

l'ress Association. JJUNEDIN, February 2:

Before tho Industries Committee today, -vLr John London advocated woolscounng on a much larger scale m New Zealand. Ho suggested the amalgamation of the existing wool-scouring plants, and the ~establishment of throe modem plants in each island. He also su;;yestC<l that returned soldiers be encouraged to go in for raisins agricultural arid gurdeu Becdn on tho communistic principle. Jl'r Todd, president o£ the Expansion League, and Mr Wnters, urged tho appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into land tenures in Otsigo and the depletion and dcler.ioni.tion of Central Otago land through rabbits. . The former thought, that the) province should carry two million more sheep. Mr Edmund Anscombe, architect, advocated tho erection of combination factory buildings for the accommodation of small individual manufacturers, also a system of communism in housing heat, light, power,, and transport facilities. Mr H. SincJock secretary of Donaghy and Co., drew attention to the Customs tariff in twine, and ropo. urging a reasonable protective duty. The present system of grading led to the production of quantity at the esoenso of quality. Tba Iter. Bush King read a paper on tfe^,

development of industries «i the home and iindiajj markiets br moans of loca j clearing-houses aitd sales depots abroad for homo-made aitticles. Hanv Red Cross workers and wom|?n ivho had done' patriotic and war won't wanted to know if, an outlet could be fpund for the coatonuatioa of their effort. Ho suggested matins? use of the rtisb. Commissioner's office in London to further this project. Mi- A. C. Bra-Bi of the Otagp brush factory, urged of a Minister for Industries. He complained that an Australian teambine was dumping goods in New .Zealand. Brush makers eeeured stocks ct raw material in.defiance of the lair under which neither bristlei nor horsehair eould be imported. Mr J. Sligo, liepreseffitinß the. trow Mine Owners' Association, said a statement lad been itnadc that (fold realised up to £5 5s per trance in London, whereas tie standard lt>ri<» bad not been raised hero. He co-hsidered that producers should set the bejnent of any increase A board of experts should inquire into the mining industry. . Jlr W Neil, president of the Boot irainuiact-urers' Association, urged: further prohibition to stimulate the local industry. The &pTornment should legislate for the production of purer leather than some now obtained from the tanners.