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New Zealand’s Future.

Contributed by the Department of Industries and Commerce.

A MAGNIFICENT future lies ahead of this young country, a future which depends on intense and concentrated effort by all to develop to the utmost every activity of which it is capable. So far the primary-producing industries have occupied the . most important, . position in New Zealand’s economy, and, while they are still far from full development, it is in the j interests of the Dominion as a whole that more attention should be paid to the manufacturing industries. Both the rural and industrial resources of New Zealand should be exploited at the same time. The result of such a policy would be a greater turnover on the internal market most valuable .market any country can have— the benefit of all sections and classes. While efficient farming and its products are the foundation of New Zealand trade, the tendency towards restrictions on the markets for export produce, and the policy of economic • nationalism being pursued by most countries of the world, make it imperative that New Zealand should give more attention to her manufacturing industries. The extension of local industries, both primary and manufacturing, is essential to enable us to absorb the greater population necessary for the development and protection of this country. All these industries are interrelated, the extension of manufactures, providing a greater local market. for the farmer, and the development of farming providing a bigger outlet for manufactures. The happiness of thousands of New Zealand homes depends on the success and prosperity of individual manufacturing plants. The activity of those manufacturing plants depends upon the public demand. If the public give full consideration to local products when making their purchases, the factories' will be ' busy and the homes depending on those factories will be well supported. We can also render a real service not only to our workpeople, but also to trade as a whole, if we insist— We can insist with confidence-—on preferring New-Zealand-made commodities where they are available. And New Zealand goods are available equal in value and quality to the finest imported. lines. There are but few industries which are

not being developed in New Zealand. In the manufacture of food, clothing, vehicles, household articles and furniture, machinery and technical equipment, there are industries flourishing and producing goods which compare favourably with those made in any other part of the world. Every order for goods made by the New Zealand workers beneficially affects an extraordinarily wide range of workers in the Dominion. When these industrial

orders are multiplied by the numbers of consumers in the Dominion, factories operate at full capacity, skilled artisans are busy, and money flows freely within the country. It is not the manufacturer only who benefits. The wave of prosperity which follows spreads in all directions. The aim of all production is consumption, and therefore it follows that if we wish to increase production in New Zealand we must consume New-Zealand-made goods.

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Bibliographic details

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 57, Issue 6, 20 December 1938, Page 564

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492

New Zealand’s Future. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 57, Issue 6, 20 December 1938, Page 564

New Zealand’s Future. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 57, Issue 6, 20 December 1938, Page 564

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