NEW ZEALAND GOODS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20960, 25 February 1930, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND GOODS.

PREFERENCE TO LOCAL MATERIAL. RESOLUTION BY MANUFACTURERS. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, February 24. As part of a general campaign urging the use of Zealand goods, the conference of presidents of the various manufacturers associations in the Dominion to-day adopted tfie following motion. “That the federation be requested immediately to urge upon the Government the necessity to adopt and announce as a policy measure in respect of all Statei advances to workers .or settlers or loans from any State institution the. following conditions:— That no such advances or loans shall he available' for building or for any purpose wherein the purchase of materials or articles of manufacture are involved unless such materials or articles are the product of New Zealand and of New Zealand workers provided, however, that the New Zealand product must be comparable with any available imported substitute in merit for durability, utility (and where such apply) workmanship and design, and provided that such effect shall not apply in such cases wherein it can he definitely proven by the borrower that any required material or article is unprocurable of New Zealand origin, or that the cost of the New Zealand product (of equivalent qualities) is so far in excess of that_ of the imported product as to entail a substantial addition to the ultimate cost of the building or undertaking involved, provided, further, that in all cases where a decision is reached that _ New Zealand products are not effectively available as aforesaid the materials or articles .to be used, shall be of Empire origin, and that no products of foreign origin shall be permitted unless it is conclusively proved that the required materials or articles cannot be drawn, first, from the products of . ’New Zealand origin, or secondly, from the products of Empire origin.’ 1

The motion was adopted unanimously,