DUNEDIN’S ADVANTAGES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26117, 2 April 1946, Page 4

DUNEDIN’S ADVANTAGES

ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW INDUSTRIES PRAISE FOR LOCAL WORKERS “The largest centres of population are by no means always the best in which to locate new industries,”’ said Mr M. S. Myers, director of the Dunedin Development Council, in conversation with a Daily Times reporter yesterday, “and evidence of this fact has been seen in the recent cable news from Australia, concerning the apparent loss by New South Wales of three or four important industries to South Australia.” Many of the advantages possessed by South Australia were in some ways not dissimilar to those which Dunedin offered manufacturers, Mr Myers continued. These included comparative freedom from industrial unrest, the stability of its workers, and their reliability in production. These were factors which had been voluntarily conceded to apply in Dunedin by a number of the principals of overseas firms who had recently made use of the council’s services in their inquiries regarding the possible establishment of industries in New Zealand. , . , , "Regular and adequate freight services to the consuming markets of the north, which have been causing concern to local manufacturers for some time, are, of course, a problem to be overcome in the interests of the existing manufacturers and of the city and orovince,” Mr Myers added, “but all interested in the position in Dunedin are at one in their efforts to bring about such an improvement.