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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 78, 8 May 1914, Page 10

NX Industries Week, 1914 By Buying Goods made in the Dominion you keep Yourself Your, Relatives and Friends in Constant Employment T HIS WEEK the CANTERBURY INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION again seeks to focus attention on the high quality and wide variety of goods that are made in our midst. These exhibits year by year should make a strong appeal to both old and young —to parents, because on them rests the responsibility of giving the rising generation a good start in life; on the young, because their future, their progress and prosperity are so linked up with the progress of the Dominion. Few people realise the importance of our Industries, and their effect ori the general prosperity of the Dominion. For instance, take the Woollen Industry. Reporting on the various Wool Sales, the auctioneers said: — « " The Dominion woollen manufacturers'representatives were active, and to a large extent the very firm values ruling for the fine wools were due to their influence.*' " It was indeed a remarkable sale, and the outlook, which was none too bright, has changed to one of cheerfulness and confidence." *'' Yesterday the factories came to the rescue, and merino vv|ool brought its full value." "The competition of the Dominion mills for the finer qualities being a strong factor towards forcing values to a higher level." The sale, on the whole, was the most satisfactory held in this centre for some years." " The wools purchased for local use being, we consider", abfcve the level of the Home market." . Such remarks prove the importance of our Woollen Industry, not only from an Industrial standpoint, but as an important factor in keeping up the "price of our great wool output, which, by the way, constitute one-third of our total exports. This Industry, including allied trades, finds employment for some 5,000 workers, whose'pay-roll exceeds £350,000 a year. MEAT FREEZING AND PRESERVING FACTORIES find regular employment for 4,000 hands, whose earnings total over £450,000 a year. Our BOOT AND SHOE FACTORIES employ some 2,100 hands, with a pay-roll of over £200,000. BISCUIT AND CONFECTIONERY WORKS absorb-), 100 hands, whose earnings total over £78,000. JAM AND FRUIT PRESERVING FACTORIES find work for nearly 300 hands, who earn about £17,000 a year. "* It is an acknowledged fact that New Zealand Workers turn out goods equal to the best the world can produce Then why buy Imported Goods LOOK! Here are some Figures Last Year We Imported:— £1,102,796 £6,067 £7,445 £320,569 £53,467 £30,821 £139,423 £159,100 £102,494 £187,725 £11,798 V £5,148 £14,233 £43,255 £10,647 £20,840 £169,727 £159,000 £82,523 worth, of 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 Total' £2,607,078 BUT WHY? ' Simply because consumers are not alive to their own interests. YOU will not trouble to ask for goods made in the Dominion THINK how many hands two and a-half millions would keep in regular employment. THINK of the wealth it would create. THINK of the opportunities it would open up for YOUR boys and girls. THINK how the money would circulate—how every one of those extra hands would want Clothing, Boots, Hats, Hosiery, Groceries, Confectionery, Fruit, Houses, Land, and so on. YES, THINK! Then remember that the greater part of every shilling spent on imported goods is a duect loss to YOUR OWN country. FARMERS ! WORKERS ! PARENTS ! FELLOW CITIZENS ! Let us wake up! Let us resolve to help build up the Industries of our own country before any other. Let us stop the suicidal policy of exporting our Money by Importing our Goods. THE CANTERBURY INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION J. B, LAURENSON, President. RONALD S. BADGER, Secretary.