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CO-OPERATION REQUIRED B,v 1 Piegraph Piest <\ssnrlation WELLINGTON. February 24 The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) and the Minister for Industries and Commerce (Hon. D. G. Sullivan), visited further factories today, and in the course of the "isits were informed that the reduction in imports of canned fruit had led to the doubling of the supply of tins for New Zealand grown fruit in the Hawke’s Bay area. The subject of baths for houses also came up, a company manager saying that he believed the company had proved that porcelain and enamel baths could be made in New Zealand, equal to anything made elsewhere. At one stage of the tour, Mr Savage said that the Government had set out to build up industry in New Zealand, because they believed that the people of New Zealand were capable of the work required. Mr Sullivan said that, in some industries, New Zealand was producing the best quality, and the young people of the Dominion were adaptable and enterprising. New Zealand could become a great manufacturing nation. All that was required was the co-opera-tion of the workers with the employers. of which they had evidence in the factory they were visiting.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 5
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203NEW INDUSTRIES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21280, 25 February 1939, Page 5
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