JUNIORS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13726, 15 August 1908, Page 3

JUNIORS.

FIRST PRIZE: EDITH COOK, 11 years 4 months. Central School. During last week the shopkeepers of this town made a special display of New Zealand-madfe goods. Their object in this matter was not only to make an exhibition of the fruits of our industries, but to prove that manufacturers in the Dominion are able to turn out articles of great variety and of good finish and quality, with the hope that they will be more generally used by the public. So many people think that goods imported from foreign countries are so very superior to local articles ; in fact, a manufacturer is like a prophet, "without honour in his own country." The beautiful display we have seen ought to do away with this impression. Passing down the street, cur attention is attracted by the drapers' windows, where we see beautifully-finished travelling rugs, tweeds, costumes^nd woollen underclothing from the Kaiapoi, Roslyn, Mosgiel, and Petone mills. Boots and shoes from the local factory make a good show. The grocers' shops have an appetising display. Here are butter an£ cheese from the surrounding districts, ana preserved meats — beef, mutton, and tongues — from the Gear |Company works, Petone. Here, too, we see some kinds of fish, sauces, jams, and canned fruits in great variety from Hawke s Bay and Nelson; biscuits, and, last but not least, lollies from Dunedm and Christchurch. . The pork butchers, with their tempting wares, ptovc the value of the loc-ally-grown pig. , - , Bakers, for their tasty bread and cakes, get their flour from the local mill at Sentry HiU. Our prinjbers and bookbinders show what they can do, and there are even oil paintings made in New Zealand. Unfortunately, a great many of these industries are not carried on m Taranaki itself, and this is chiefly from lack of energy ; but a special effort has been mad© to develop the ironsand and petroleum. " „ . Of course, apart from the awpj a J T m the shops, the grea/; products of New Zealand— wool, irofceu'meat, ceal, gold, timber, flax^gum,. etc.^-£re always before us, >*nd at t»e present^FrancoBritish Exhibitfon,-being ; lf«a m Londono, New Zealand makes a brave show, worthy even, pf 'the interest of our King and Qu^Sn. . Finally, the exhibition of goods is an object lesson to show what a young colony can do, and foretells a. great future for the manufactures of the Dominion. , i

SECOND : JOYCE WILSON, 11 years, West End:— Industrial Week, held here inN™! Plymouth last week, is a dispMy ot goods made in the Dominion. It was held last week because the* English footballers were here and a groat many people oamo to see the match. Ihe large display of goods in the windows proclaim New Zealand to be a rapidly advancing country. In being patriots to our country we ought to buy goods made here, not goods made away from the Dominion. The Chamber of Commerce used a great deal of influence in inducing the principal tradespeople to display goods made in the country. The shop windows were tastetuH}' decorated for the occasion. windows contained Kaiapoi, Roslyn, Mosgiel, Petone and Onebuuga woollens/ tweeds, blankets and rugs. Kaiapoi mills employ over one thousand Vn and boys, and it takes all these people to make one blanket or rug. As the wool <passes through a door at one end it is received by boys, put through various processes, and taken out through another door at the other end of the mill. Grocers' windows contain flour, wheat, vegetables, sweets, biscuits, tinned meat, extracts of meat, condensed milk, grape mits, wheatmeal, bran, oatmeal anil rolled oats. In one window all the different processes in the making of flour are shown, lirst is the wheat, then the bran, and so on until the flour is made. The hardworking farmer has a share in this. He grows the wheat and vegetables, pastures the sheep and cattle and sells them to- the butchers, who kill them. A great deal of tallow and many hides are exported to the other provinces in order to be manufactured, but this ought not to be, for' cattle are increasing. • Timber is exported largely; some is also kept for our own use. Cabinetmakers have a large trade, furniture is made, and d6ors^ , wmdow-frames or other articles are manufactured in pur factories. Leather goods are manufactured in great abundance owing to the increase of cattle. Boots, shoes and other leather articles are manufactured Among other factories are the Egmont Boot Factory and the Sash and Door Factory. Both factories employ many workers. Those work hard all day 'and make many articles. The result of this is to induce the public to buy goods made in the Dominion.-'Arti-cles of clothing made in, tKe Jtouumbn equal any made elsewhere. After this display of goods the inhabitants are naturally anxious to buy goods of our own make. Our railways are also advancing. The last engine which came from Auckland weighed ninety-one tons. When we think, that sixty or seventy years ago where there are now railways, roads and flourishing towns was bush whers ' Maoris lived we can fiardly believe it, but it is quite true, and that ancient race is now dying out. THIRD: HIOR-NS MANDER, 12 years 9 months, West End: — As large numbers of people will be visiting town during the present week on account of the. football match, it was thought that it would be a good idea to hold an Industrial Week. To «v large extent this, thought has been executed, for, as I* observed on Wed"nesdav, most of tho windows were

stocked with Now Zealand-made goods only. This exhibition of colonial goods is to show visitors and others that. American and English goods are not the only ones sold bore, and that it necessary we could do without them. Another reason is that some people think New Zealand has few or no products, but lives on those of other countries; and to show that New Zealand is not dependent on other cwintrieVrter support, and that she has many industries beckoning well for her future prosperity, an industrial Week is being held. Its value is great, for it advertises New Zealand goods and shows us how our small but prosperous Dominion has, in the last half of the eighteenth century, increased her wealth, not only in manufactures, but by having the latest and most modern machinery in her factories. The windows differ greatly from before. In the drapers' windows the silk has departed and given placet to the product of one of the Dominion's great- . est industries — woollen goads, which have found their way chiefly from Kaiw • apoi, Mosgiel, Petone, and Onehunga, and are found here in the form^of blankets, suits, jerseySj and other clothing. These factories give employment to several thousands of workmen, and therefore, unless a large number of goods are manufactured, this industry will not pay. In the grocers'- windows one may expect to find nftffi© of a variety of goods, the most prominent / being jam, pickles, and hops from son; cheese, butter, bacon, flour from Taranaki; and biscuits f rom/TJmiedin and Christchurch. Our honey comes from Masterton, where the industry for that product— bee-farming —i is , greatly indulged in. ' ■• To produce these products- the land must be cleared of tne bush, and from the- trees wtf get timber. Mills haye . been erected, and the most" modern N machinery available is being used, capable of producing the finest # fretwork to large gates, the object being to obtain the most work and tfye pest quality., The boot factory also uses- the most modern machinery, £2000 vorth being vised for boots only. Printing establishments have been erected /where ledgers are ruled and bound, anjl bills with as many as six different colours are printed. In this -case each, bill has to go through the machine six separate times. In the printers' windows are exhibited lodgers and day-books of all sizes, birthday and memorial oards t)f designs, along with books published in New Zealand.. In the leather goods shop windows may be eeen portmanteaus, travelling bags, saddles, and other harness, which were all made in New Zealand. When the cattle were killed the hides were washed and then tanned, sent to the factories and made into goods some of which I have^ just mentioned. i*

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