NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21357, 10 June 1931, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES

TO THE EDITOB. Sib, —I see by your issue of June 6 that a movement has been started by the Mayor of Cromwell and others to hold a New Zealand Industries Week. This is indeed a praiseworthy idea and might well be followed by every town in New Zealand. I notice, however, that among those who form the business community of Cromwell are several persons who own motor cars from the United States, Even the two cars owned by the Mayor himself do not bear names that one readily recognises as cars efficiently British. As to the Empire, and especially our Motherland, to which we send practically all our wool, butter, fruit, cheese, etc., can supply better and cheaper motor cars, and as the United States will not take our produce, may I be permitted to suggest that, as our esteemed Governor-General has pointed out, if we cannot get New Zealand-made goods, then we should buy from the Motherland or some other part of the Empire. , . : The last country Ave should buy from is the United States, as* that country places a prohibitive tariff on practically everything we produce, especially wool and butter. The duty levied on our butter is 8d per pound, and on our wool, at present prices, it is about 250 per cent. How in the face of this a New Zealander can buy a car made in the United States is beyond my comprehension. Let our watchword ever be “New Zealand and the Empire first.” —I am, etc., Empire Goods.