MORE PROTECTION FOR TEXTILE INDUSTRY
PETITION CIRCULATED A petition is now being circulated among workers in the woollen :md clothing industries asking the Government for increased tariff protection for those industries. The petition is being promoted by the Industrial Association, and was before the meeting of the general committee of the association yesterday. It was stated that signatures were being sought in the South. The canvasser had collected from 700 to 800 signatures in Auckland. The petition declared that there had been in the year ended in March, 1925, a decrease in production in the woollen industry of £157,000 and £2,997,041 worth of clothing had been imported including £373,125 from protected countries. If this clothing had been made in New Zealand there would be less unemployment. In the year ended March 1926, nearly all the woollen mills in New Zealand were working short time, and most of them at a loss. The petition quotes the duties imposed in Australia, which Mr. H. E. Pratten, Commonwealth Minister for Trade and Customs, had stated to have revived the whole textile industry. Extra protection, it is stated, would not increase the price to the consumer.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 88, 5 July 1927, Page 8
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