DRIVEN FROM AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 October 1929, Page 3

DRIVEN FROM AUSTRALIA.

THROUGH LABOUR TROUBLES. SYDNEY, Sunday. The Sunshine Harvester Company of Melbourne announces that it has completed arrangements for the establishment of a manufacturing business for the production of Sunshine harvesters in Canada. This decision is due to restrictions arising from compulsory arbitration and repeated industrial disturbances. —A. and N.Z. P.A.

AN IMPORTANT MOVE. TORONTO, Sunday. A plant financed and controlled by Messrs H. V. McKay, Ltd., Melbourne, and the Waterloo Manufacturing Co., Waterloo (Ontario), will be erected atWaterloo in the near future, to manufacture combine harvesters. It will employ 1500 men. The decision of Messrs McKay to establish a plant in Canada is held to be; of the utmost importance to Canada in view of the heavy imports of combine harvesters from the United States at the present time, amounting in value to more than £8,000,000. The combine is regarded as an economic necessity for the large grain farmer in tho West, and as the United States product has to face a 10 per cent tariff, the new company should, it is said, find a ready sale for its products. Moreover, in addition to sales in Canada, the new firm will handle export business to the United States, which imposes no tariff, and to South America, where the market is large. It is thought that the removal of export factories from Australia to Canada will aid in the meeting of competition in these markets, both of which are also important from the fact that the McKay Harvester is operated by one man, while the United States type requires three, thus involving a considerable saving of labour costs. Little comment has been made regarding Messrs McKay’s motive in removing the plant from Australia, as Canadian busines men are not familiar with Australian industrial problems. — A. and N.Z. P.A.