NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9253, 4 June 1908, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRIES.

« TO-DAY'S APPEAL. A GOOD DISPLAY. The Canterbury Industrial Association's scheme to establish a New Zealand Industries Week has been taken up with a good deal of enthusiasm m the city. This is the first day of the exhibition, and the experiment, on the whole, has been proved to be very successful. In most of the main thoroughfares cards and placards are displayed announcing that goods exhibited in the windows have been made in New Zealand. Thirty-four manufacturers have supplied samples of their goods for exhibition ; thirty-two shopkeepers have given up their windows for displays; and fifty-seven firms are exhibiting their own goods in their own windows. The principal industries of Canterbury are represented. There ar^ the frozen meat, woollen, bootmaking, furnituremaking, biscuit-making, brushwaremaking', engineering, preserving, and many other industries. All local industries which it is possible to display in this way, in fact, will be shown m the shops of the city for one week. In some instances, as in the woollen industry, the exhibits will be representative _or the whole dominion. The woollen industry, probably, makes the most conspicuous display, partly on account of the fact that it has secured pome of the best sites in the city., but other important industries aro not behind. One of the most notable features of the exhibition is the large number of small industries represented. Some of them hove only lately sprung into being, and citizens who have taken the trouble to make something more than a casual inspection of the exhibition are surprised at the quality nnrl finish of the goods turned out by industries which have hardly nnssrri through tho infancy stage of their lives.