COMMUNITY BENEFIT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18580, 14 December 1934, Page 12

COMMUNITY BENEFIT

TARIFF PROTECTION | WARNING TO INDUSTRY (Special to tho Herald.) DUNEDIN, this "day. “I think that manufacturers generally appreciate that tariff, protection, where given, is a benefit conferred I lirough 'Parliament by the community generally on a nartieular industry,’’ said ine Prime Minister, the I't.llon. 0. W. Forbes, in an address to the Manufacturers’ Association butt even -; ing. “It is becoming appreciated that ifi return for. this benefit the community expects that such tariffs will give the industry the opportunity of attaining efficiency and conditUini? .of manufacture which will be reflected' to the community in the quality and price of the products of that particular industry. “Moreover, while T know that I need not apply my remarks to those present here, it is expected that the remuneration for the workers will

be as liberal as possibly, and that manufacturers will watch that no conditions approaching sweating arc , tolerated. I “Our and your experience in the past has been that it is' a very difficult matter to get the units of industry to pull together and unitedly on the problems of production and marketing matters of' benefit to the consumer primarily iiY such matters as technical co-operation, for ’increased efficiency. However, there has boon too little tendency to eo-operate on common problems, and it is precisely in this direction'in which co-operation in our special conditions in New Zealand is obviously, likely to be of most advantage to co-operating •mnmifae.Hirers and to the public alike. i ‘'Compared with other countries we . i,ayjj, I think, been somewhat • backward in developing this co-operation, and it was not a matter on which the Government itself could take tho whole of the initiative, but the Government has always been -willing to co-operate with manufacturers in this 1 regard, and I am glad to note that yonr federation is bringing up this matter. ”