EMPIRE TRADE COMMISSION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10591, 7 March 1913, Page 2

EMPIRE TRADE COMMISSION.

Per Press Association. Wellington, March 7. The members of the Trade Commission were taken for & cruise j round the harbour this morning. | Harbour engineer Marchbanks oiying evidenceptated that Wellington port, when the work in contemplation was completed, would have accommodation for ships of 1000 feet drawing“4o feet. The secretary 'of the Board gave evidence as to the Board’s financial position, which he said was very sound. The Board had never been lavish, extravagant, nor Utopian. It had always kept an eye to the developments of the port, hut did uot go too far ahead in a way that would make it'a dear port. Mr J.T. Luke, representing the New Zealand Industrial Association, cave a description of ironsand and ore, copper, antimony awl other economical metallic resources of New Zealand. It would, ho said be suicidal for the people of INew Zealand to ship iron ore or ironsand away, holding that it would be m the interests of the Empire a to have iron works established in the Dominion. There was no class of machinery used in New Zealand that could not be manufactured in JNew Zealand and no Government would co outside for locomotives now tnac these had been so successfully constructed in the Dominion. Witness thougt still larger fields of coal would •yet be revealed in New Zealand, He bad great confidence in the extent of mineral oil as well as coal, and these would warrant a large number of people to work them.