WHEREAS, the development of our country ™s cottage industry potential depends on increased production and patronage and improvement of the methods of production and standards of cottage products; and

WHEREAS, there is need for more of our people to engage in cottage industries and participate in the attainment of economic self-sufficiency;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare October 1 to 7, 1963, as Home Industries Week under the auspices of the National Cottage Industries Development Authority. I call upon all government and private entities and all residents of the Philippines to lend their full cooperation in making the observance of the Week a success.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and Caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-three.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:

RUFINO G. HECHANOVA
Executive Secretary