INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE
DEPARTMENT’S WORK REVIEWED ASSISTANCE TO MANUFACTURERS. WELLINGTON, August 6. . A comprehensive review of the work of the Department of Industries and Commerce in promoting the sale and purchase of New Zealand-made goods and otherwise assisting local industries was made by Mr P. A. de la Perrelle (Minister of Industries and Commerce), in reply to a recent criticism levelled by a member of the House of Representatives. Concluding a lengthy statement, he said that he desired to reiterate that much of the work of the department was of a confidential nature and consequently could not be made public. For this reason the department had received much, criticism in the past which was entirely unfair and unwarranted. Every assistance that could reasonably be expected had beenjgiven by the department to the manufacturing industries of the Dominion. During the past year proposals for the establishment of several new industries had been fully investigated, particularly from the point of view of providing profitable, employment fop the men now unemployed, and every possible assistance had been freely given.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4039, 11 August 1931, Page 68
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