DEVELOPMENT URGED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 5

DEVELOPMENT URGED

SECONDARY INDUSTRIES LABOR PARTY POLICY (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Members of the Parliamentary Labor Party, who have been attending the annual confeience, yesterday visited the Woolston tanneries and, after an inspection of the works, addressed the employees. Mr. M. J. Savage said that nowadays most countries produced nearly all their requirements, and the Labor Party held that if New Zealand could not sell her goods overseas, she must sell them within ihe Dominion. The Libor Party intended to find out what was made, and what could ho made, in New Zealand. The time was opportune for the development of a home market. At the first opportunity, the Labor Party would sec that there was a further development of secondary industries.

Mr. F. Lrngstone, M.P., said that the standard of living in New Zealand could no longer be Linked with that of any other countries. In the development of secondary industries lay the greatest chance of solving the unemployment problem. Mr. R. Semple, M.P.J said that they must make the Dominion their workshop. He, hoped before the year was out that the people would have a chance of expressing their opinions through the ballot box on the present Government’s policy of commercial suicide. Mr. R. McKeen, M.P., dealt chiefly with the problem of finding employment for young people, and he said that the only opportunity for the young was m the secondary industries.