SORE NEED OF EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR OWN PEOPLE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 13

SORE NEED OF EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR OWN PEOPLE

♦+♦ “MORE ESSENTIAL THAN EVER BEFORE IN THE HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND ” By MR J. I. SPEARS, President of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation. During the past year the value and protective possibilities of the public’s general appreciation and patronage of Made in New Zealand manufactures has so competently manifested itself that our industries are being permitted to do great service in the field of employment. For this service to the community the buying public is to be heartily thanked. For the provision of ways and means of permitting the public to see, to examine and to realise the genuine merit or our manufactures, the retailers of the Dominion in general, and Dunedin in particular, must also be congratulated and urged long to continue their valued effort. To such of the public who favour the process of development of inter-Empire trade it is suggested that New Zealandmade goods are Empire goods, but possessing the added virtue that they also provide the so sorely needed Godsend employment tor our own kith and kin. The utmost realisation of this important necessity is now more essential than ever before in the history of the Dominion, the support therefore of our own manufactures in self and community interest becomes an individual and collective duty. As our factories, from the standpoint of capital investment and plant, are competent of absorbing much greater labour volume than that now employed, let us each and all do our part to break through the cloud of depression to the golden sunshine and buy Empire goods made in New Zealand-