TAKE ME BACK TO THE RM.

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 24, 27 November 1943, Page 4

TAKE ME BACK TO THE RM.

k , ra , ADVANTAGE was taken ofl the heqvy oh* Monday morning to hold a Current Topics discussion of Industry After . the War with r crane o to rehab - ilitation, it was Services morn - Ing on the soup ba ax. find most was made of the opportunity - for the coming farmers The tendency of thS discussion was to discount tho pod" sibility of of developing secondary industries in N«Z» Tho Brassurt Report was thrashed out fairly thor©uglily, but the farm advocates stuck to their guns® Norm Pitt led the attack by pointing out that wg had no guarantee that the present shortage of steel, iron and other minerals would bo in short supply ■ for long after the war® Aa a short term policy ho thought it was foolish® Our? job was to concentrate on primary production® In this ho had the support of Alf Saunders who knows the mining business; he pointed out that the latest policy was to take row materials such as wrai ore to the factories, not build tho factories whore the -ora was® He would not c ©mini hi us elf on pass - ibilitles on Indaotriooin N, Z® Joe Andrews carried the argument further by "a condemnation of rod tape policy of chocking. infant Indus* tries® In tM.e he had a good deal of support® Gordon Uncial© had • something to say on Civil Servants and . Boards® j , Paterson4iaac took the middle course and wanted tho b®st of both worlds® Concrete uanufac- , • tore found support in Tom Ar mon .' ? who thought the industry had a j promising future; he pointed out • • the- many ways in which sonar:, to was being used in N»S® today. Prom concrete the discussion moved on to roads® Norm Pitt considered that N, Z. had ov a reU ppo d herso 1f in developing roads® This started Gordon Berry on the subject and he cut well into the lunch hour® It was a good discussion, despite the agricultural beds and tho fact that secondaries industries arc . .-*• already established in N e Z. so > that the question will bo not /• f whether wo have them, but how far h wo should curry thorn® 1 fl I! ft II It H 1; li »J II I! II . ; : ; .y ■ ■ THE last of Hums re ud Genera to Coy’s notorious ,r Squattirs v was heard early in. the wook when the axe rang, out ths farewell • a. farewell that left no tuerrwo Wa offer our sympathy to Captain,.?, J, Clarke ♦* and rejoice? wx*t, the old shinned way prevails At last