COMPLAINTS FROM DUNEDIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17178, 23 October 1923, Page 7

COMPLAINTS FROM DUNEDIN.

A STRONG LETTER. Per Pbess Association. DUNEDIN, October 23, The letter states that the vital joints the Industrial Corporation of New Zealand explains the reasons why the local Manufacturers’ Association cancelled its affiliation. The lette rstates that the vial point involved were not merely the question of the scope of the Dunedin Exhibition or the duty on bottles, but the whole principle of the corporation possessing, power to speak for the manufacturers of the Dominion and exercising that power, when, in the opinion of the Dunedin Association, it was in no way organised to ascertain the actual views of the manufacturers. The corporation is criticised foi* its failure, to handle tariff revision efficiently and the opinion is expressed that the interests of manufacturers can be adequately safeguarded bv a well organised Manufacturers’ Association in each centre with uniformity of action when such is considered necessary. The action of three presidents of the Northern Associations in waiting on the Prime Minister to protest against tlie subsidy for the Dunedn Exhibition is referred to, and the statement is made that no explanation has been offered why tlie three presidents introduced themselves as representing the Industrial Corporation. Negotiations between the four associations in connection with the duty on glass bottles are dealt with and the manner in which the local association was left in the dark as regard the corporation’s intentions are adversely criticised. The letter concludes:—*‘lf the other three associations can devise ways and means of reorganising the ooroporatiou and making it in actual fact what, hitherto, it has, in our opinion, been only hi name, we hope to be among tlie