INDUSTRIES CAMPAIGN
CO-OPERATION OP WOMEN. MOVEMENT JN DUNEDIN. One of the most pleasing features of the publicity campaign launched by the manul'acturers uf Dunedin last week i was the voluntary co-operation of the Otago Women’s Club, states the Evening Star. This was the second year that ent'i'getie workers had set themselves out to help the manufacturers by alloting a great deal of space in their clubroom to a compact yet. vom preliensive display of practically every I article included in the housewife si shupping ILL In conjiindion with the. opening ol | the exhibition a meeting was held, one of the objects being fo lire the. lir.'i .•'hots iu a campaign for the incut of a New Zealand Preference I League. |n explaining lhe movement I Air. .1. Hogg cited instances of wluu had been done in this connection in Canada. He said the people there were very strong in the patriotic.* feel ing which prompted them to buy goods made in their own country. They had placed their industrial life on a very high pinnacle. Conditions somewhat similar were apparent in England, Australia and in many foreign countries, while in Auck land, Aliss Melville, who was well known in publie life, had been engaged to canvass and lecture on those linos throughout the province, Mr. Hogg said. He believed that eventually the movement should spread through thr city and the province, and that, a strong league would be formed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 10
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