SLOW MATERIAL PROGRESS
Under-developed Countries Material conditions in underdeveloped countries had hardly changed in the last decade, said Mr N. Kirk, M.P. for Lyttelton, at a special meeting of the Christchurch area group of the Pan Pacific and South-east Asia Women’s Association on Saturday. With 60 per cent, of the population stall living below the subsistence level, much more must be done to rout disease and poverty, the basis of much misery. One hundred and fifty pounds of food a second must be found, not to raise, but to maintain these levels; Mr Kirk said. “It is a mock to conquer a disease today for people to die of starvation tomorrow.”
But many plans had been a huge success, such as rural development schemes. These were laying the basis for political stability, Mr Kirk said. He suggested that some M the capital invested in such countries could be invested in New Zealand, to make larger supplies of food available sooner.
Mr George Burns spoke on the contributions New Zealand could make to Asia in the field of communications.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30219, 26 August 1963, Page 2
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