The Review of Reviews. 



June 1, 1906. 



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Those who have had the patience and interest to study the 

 evidence taken before the Tariff Commission, will find no 

 fact more strousl.v emphasised by witnesses in tlie iron trade 

 than the capacity of Anstralian machinery manufacturers 

 to turn out implements used in various industries, up to 

 the standard of the l»st English and American goods. Some 

 of the evidence in regard to the mining industry is most 

 illuminating on this point. Absolutely first-class engines. 

 equal to the finest imported ones, have not only been made 

 here, but are in general use. and the most experienced wit- 

 nesses have declared that there is no engine which cannot 

 be imxde here equal to those constructed elsewhere, if the 

 patented parts are isermitted to be embodied. The same 

 tale is told iu regard to smidries. such as wheels, springs. 

 axles, etc. In agricultural implements it has been explained 

 that an immense industry ha:5 been developed in Australia 

 during the last four or five years. Makers in this State have 

 loue been celebrated for the splendid ploughs they have 

 been able to produce. Melbourne and Ballarat mechanics 

 and Government employes have demonstrated for a long 

 period not onlv their capacity to build first-class locomotives 

 in any stvles. but latterly they have produced them cheaper 

 than "any imported ones. The crowning feat accomplished 

 b.v Australians, however, is the invention of the model type 

 of harvester for the world. In this achievement, which 

 ought to Ije such an incentive to the progress of the trade, 

 the jealous.v of vastly rich American machinery manufac- 

 turers has been aroused, and they are now doing their best 

 to capture the Commonwealth market, and drive Australian 

 implement makers out of business. H. V. McKay's ' Sun- 

 shine " Harvester AVorks, which is the strongest of our 

 organisations iu this branch of industry, and produces the 

 best machine, employs close on 700 workmen, and is able, 

 providing the American Trust gives fair competition, to hold 

 its own. Should the competition, however, be unfair, as it 

 is at the present time, harvesters being sold by an Ameri- 

 can Trust, according to their own statement, at a loss of 

 £10 143. 3d. per machine, it will ultimately mean tliat these 

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