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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 3

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AUSTRALIA GIVING THEM A BOOST. \Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) (Received August 13, 11.20 a.m.) SIDNEY, August 13. The Chamber of Manufacturers has launched an extensive campaign, calling on Australians to buy' only Aufitralian'na.de goods. 'll Out^of the war (says the Sydney Oaily Telegraph) has arisen a new Australia—an Australia which realises that it has, drawn the respect of all nations, hat its name has been written large m ;he view of cither nations. And there s realisation, too, that Australia is not nerely a land of possibilities, and not ■>nly a land of great primary wealth, )iit that it has also the, capacity to p. an, to build, and achieve results in' all directions m which civilised communities are working. It is with a view to the cultivation and development of this sentiment, and the encouragement of Australians to make their country self-supporting, and self-reliant, that a campaign, backed by the Chamber of Manufactures, the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, the Australian Natives' Association, the National Economy Association of New South Wales and a number of other bodies, will be instituted to promote feeling m favor of Australian -made articles, and th 6 build. ing 'up of Australian industries. The object lesson of the war will be put forward prominently. The men who were good workmen m the red trade of war are not likeiy to be poor workert \ ih *L tra des of Peace. And the nier who showed genhis m the arts and organising feats of war. were the men who lad been our leaders of industry, and w {">- WJ th the sad exception of those who fell, will return to lead industrially again. ; ■ / ■ J The campaign will urge the pressing need of promoting the return to civil life and to job? of the soldiers who fought to make Australia a nation; the benefit to the Empire of making Aus--raha a self-reliant and a self-support-:ng Dominion; the dire necessity, bemuse of the huge load of debt which m e war has left, of preventing a penny °v mmeoessar y money from going 'out of Uie cduntry for the purchase of goode from abroad, when similar ones of loca' manufacture can be obtained. The plans of the great manufacturing nations tc onduct trade drives m the territory. ot ess developed nations will be stressed And it will be pointed out that the >b]ect of these trade drives is quite naturally for the purpose of enabling the countries conducting them to promote the repatriation of their own soldiers. to lighten by increased production their own grievous war-burdens of taxation, md to lessen their own unemployment nroblems. . Widespread preparations . have beer made for an active campaign, a feature of which will be aoi exhibition of the signs, posters, and advertisements which. |t is intended to put forward m connmction, with active organising work on a big scale. ; .