INTERDEPENDENCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 25

INTERDEPENDENCE

TOWN AND COUNTRY HELP EACH OTHER PRIMARY AND SECONDARY The Winter Exhibition each year is always the time when the supposed rival merits of "primary” and "secondary” industries come up for discussion. ..Much time has been wasted in the past arguing the comparative merits of the two aspects of industry, which cannot be separated, and regarded as distinct branches of wealth production. We might as well spend time arguing whether "primary” or "secondary” education is the more valuable. In modern industry, production from the raising of the raw materials to the finished article is so complex and inter-related that it is quite impossible to draw a rigid line and label some stages the “primary” and the following ones the “secondary.” It is a. mere axiom that we must have milk before we can manufacture butter, cheese, glaxo, milk of sugar, nerve foods, buttons, costly billiards balls, knife handles, or the multitude of things the casein from our milk can be made into. If milk is the “pri mary” product, then the economic production of the primary product is dependent on costly milking machines and cheap power, which are the finished products of the “secondary” industries. DEPENDENT ON MACHINERY With the aid of manufacturing enter prises, the modern farmer is becom ing more and more dependent on labour-saving machinery in every operation of scientific agriculture. The milking machine was invented and perfected in New Zealand, just as the mechanical harvester was invented and perfected in Australia. The New Zealand manufacturer can produce the best of agricultural machinery and farm implements from our Onakaka iron products, and Austi'alian consumers of New Zealand pig iron proclaimed it the best they could get. It is foolish to advocate concentration upon that stage of production which is concerned with securing just the raw materials. That is the-least profitable phase of industry so far as the return for the labour spent on it is concerned, and the more we can add to the value of our raw products by additional manufacturing processes, the more labour we will A REFRESHING BEVERAGE One of the finest beverages obtainable in Auckland is the famous "Tui” brand of East India pale ale. Mount ing in the glass with its even and natural sparkle, “Tui” Ale invites everyone to enjoy a most refreshing and invigorating drink. Bottled at the well-known “Tui” Brewery at | Mangatainoka. "Tui” Ale is known J throughout the country for its high uni- j form quality. j

employ, and the greater will be the amount of wealth produced. EXPERIENCE OF FRANCE Before the war, the backbone of France's production of wealth was her enormous number of Bmall farmers, and manufacturing industries were regarded as of “secondary” importance. Those small farmers are still the backbone of France, but the post-war development of manufacturing industries has added enormously to the national production of wealth, and played the principal part in the restoration of prosperity. No one here would deny the vital and urgent importance of more land settlement, but the neglect of our manufacturing industries, and .continued dumping of imported goods hero which we could and should make for ourselves is keeping the country impoverished, and keeping our small army of unemployed out of work.