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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

1.	Encouraging the development of the natural resources of New Zealand, and diffusing information thereon.
2.	Fostering New Zealand Manufactures, and developing Industries, so as to afford increased and steadier employment of labour.
3.	Obtaining the removal of revenue duties from raw material, and also from goods which cannot be profitably made in this Colony, and placing moderate duties upon all articles which can be so made, that are now admitted free.
4.	Discouraging the suicidal policy of purchasing out of the Colony, whether by Government or by Municipal or by other bodies, goods which can be advantageously produced in New Zealand.
5.	Keeping before Government the advantage of giving their work to Firms provided with suitable plant, instead of expending revenue in adding to the Government Workshops and machinery, thereby needlessly increasing the present heavy burdens of the taxpayers, and hindering the due development of trade, a course which tends to the continuance of the present commercial depression.