"NEW ZEALAND MADE.”

Otago Witness, Issue 3957, 14 January 1930, Page 6

"NEW ZEALAND MADE.”

PRIME MINISTER’S MESSAGE. MANUFACTURERS GRATIFIED. WELLINGTON, January G. “ The slogan of * Buy New Zealandmade goods,’ selected Ivy the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) as his New Year message, has given great satisfaction to the manufacturers of New Zealand,” declared the president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association (Mr Campbell) to-day. “ Acknowledgment of the main objective of the New Zealand manufacturers by the head of the Government of the day and his statement that * secondary industries must be assisted, are very pleasing. They will await with interest the deeds that should follow the words. New Zealand manufacturers feel that the setting up of the Development of Industries Board as outlined by them some months ago to the then Minister of Industries and Com merce (Mr J. G. Cobbe) would be the best method of developing on sound and economic lines our manufacturing industries. The question is too big to be left to the ups and downs of party politics, and mistakes in either too rapid or too slow development are too great to run any risks. The board, as suggested, would find industries which could be developed with advantage to New Zealand, and would suggest the best methods of assisting industry. There is still no doubt in the niind of the New Zealand manufacturer that, with a careful and well-informed system of development of manufacturing industries, unemployment in New Zealand could be reduced to a minimum. Their development can be greatly assisted by the people of New Zealand adopting for this year the Prime Minister's slogan of “ Buy New Zealandmade goods.”