AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3870, 15 May 1928, Page 60

AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIES.

MANUFACTURERS CRITICAL. (From Our Own Cob respondent.) SYDNEY, April 26. The Bruce Government’s penchant for Royal commissions, boards and delegations from oversea, to offer advice as to how things should be run, is likely to get it into hot water before long. It is in something of an acidulous mood, for example, that the manufacturers are likelv to greet what are shortly termed the “ Big Four,” representatives of British industry, who will shortly make a survey of our industrial and economic position. This is the sharp comment of the manufacturers’ official organ in Sydney: “Australia is a country whose people demand Protection. Why, therefore, introduce commercial diplomats from Great Britain with English viewpoints to assist us in our industrial affairs? Great Britain is admittedly a Freetrade country; their view must obviously be a prejudiced one, whatever their investigations may provc. What --Australia wants is not a commercial circus to visit its shores, but a proper understanding between the manufacturers and the powers that, be at Canberra. The Australian manufacturer wants assistance, and not advice, and this can be secured only by the utilisation of the captains of industry to discuss matters of internal importance in the most sensible manner with those who have been elected by the community to direct the fortunes of the Commonwealth,”