The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 79
Stop Importation and Limit Profit
Stop Importation and Limit Profit.
The industrial question will never be settled "until it is settled right," and we
respectfully submit that the way to settle this problem permanently is:—
An example, showing the necessity for this proposal, was cited by the Acting-President of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce recently, who stated that: "the excess of imported boots and shoes over local manufacture was 96 per cent., while the excess of imported woollens was 57 per cent., and of machinery and implements 95 per cent." If all the factories in New Zealand were consolidated, modernly equipped and specialized in each line of industry, they would be very effective in production, and only medium in size when compared with foreign competitive factories.