Hong Kong Imports
Sir,—Apparently we are still running to form. As soon as the people get something cheap, protests from interested organisations follow. Manufacturers could not care less that we are desperately trying to sell dairy produce in Hong Kong. Retailers think that they should be given precedence over the public’s desire for cheap goods. Let the people do their own shopping overseas and receive a major share of available exchange. Savings in raw material and a good market for our produce permit a smaller share for retailers who, after all, only exist to serve the people. Perhaps we are beginning to see the living standards available if we sell dear overseas and buy cheap, with our resources of labour and capital servicing industries, and they are available, which have nothing to fear from cheap imports.—Yours, etc, V. WILKINSON, Vice-president. Ashburton branch; Constitutional Society. October 5, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29643, 13 October 1961, Page 3
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