PRODUCTION IN N.Z.

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 11

PRODUCTION IN N.Z.

INDUSTRY MUST BE DEVELOPED LABOUR MEMBER'S PLEA THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter PARLIAMENT BLDGS.. Tuesday. The importance of paying attention to the development of manufacturing industries on which the Dominion depended more each year was emphasised by Mr. M. J. Savage (Labour— Auckland West) during his speech in the Budget debate in the House this evening. As far as manufacturing industries were concerned he said very little was being done to encourage them. The Government should find out the possibilities of the industries and develop them. The time was coming when New Zealand would have to rely on her own markets to a greater extent than today. The population could not be greatly increased if the country relied only on primary production and the country could never bear its national debts without increasing population. Mr. W. J. Poison (Independent— Stratford): Isn’t that a question of cost. Mr. Savage: Isn’t it better to pay our own men than to import pig-iron and give our engineers charitable aid? It was time to get down to bedrock and see what could be done, he continued. Why not import British motorchassis free and build up a motor-body industry in New Zealand. The further the country travelled the further it fell behind, and the only way to alter that was by producing more in the Dominion. The country had got into debt through importing goods that should have been made in New Zealand. The responsibility of supporting the unemployed was a national one. but it was also a national duty to strike at the root of the evil and to cure the trouble The co-ordination of State lending institutions would revolutionise the industrial situation in New Zealand.