NEW ZEALAND-MADE WEEK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND-MADE WEEK

“LOCALLY MADE” AND ” IMPORTED ” One of the outstanding features of New Zealand-made Week this year has been the satisfactory manner in which the public has been afforded a comparison between “ locally made ” and “ imported.” Whereas previously one of the chief things for notice was the 1 fact that the goods displayed were made in New Zealand, this year quality and value have been emphasised in order that their claim for public support should have more in its favour than the mere fact of local origin. It remains for the public to satisfy themselves concerning the wares offered for their inspection in about 50(? windows and to bear in mind the following additional advantages:— By buying New Zealand ; made 1. Employment is given to industrial workers in New Zealand—and they cease to be, or are saved from becoming, a charge on the Unemployment Fund. 2. They spend their wages. This means increased business for all kinds of retail shops, tramways, railways—every sort of business in the Dominion Also for the farmers. 3 The “ overhead ’ costs of the New Zealand factory also represent better business in the Dominion—rates to local bodies, taxes to the Government, revenue to the power boards, insurance, salaries to office staffs and management, maintenance and repairs. 4. So already the benefit has passed on from the people directly engaged in industry to thousands of other people—in the form of belter business for everybody whose business depends on the spending power of the public. All these in turn spend their salaries, wages and profits—and again and again, in everwidening circles, the benefit spreads. 5. Almost every individual in the community is bound to gain some benefit, direct or indirect, through the increased spending power of the public as a whole. 6. And everybody who benefits (in increased income) benefits somebody else (when he in turn spends it). That is how buying New Zealand goods must benefit, not only those actually engaged in the industry, but almost everybody in New Zealand