PAINT MANUFACTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1929, Page 14

PAINT MANUFACTURE.

It is not generally realised how extensive is the importation of paints and how much of our good New Zealand money is made to circulate in other parts of the world in payment for these imports. The progressive house of Lewis Berger and Sons, founded in London in 1760, has shown the initiative in establishing a really modern and fully equipped factory in Wellington. The. grinding machinery installed is sufficient to cope with the entire New Zealand trade, and the progress of the last few years has shown that New Zealanders realise the wisdom of supporting a secondary industry of this kind which employs New Zealand labour in the manufactuie of paints and keeps the money circulating in this country. Quite apart from the financial aspect and the reduction of unemployment brought about, there is. the fact that with the best brains considering the peculiar New Zealand conditions, and making paints to satisfy these, the product is in fact superior to the imported brands made by manufacturers for a general export market, and out of touch with the peculiar conditions here.