OPPOSED BY DR. SUTCH

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30856, 15 September 1965, Page 3

OPPOSED BY DR. SUTCH

(NZ. Press Association —Copyright > SYDNEY, September 14. The former Secretary of Industries and Commerce, Dr. W. B. Sutch, is completely opposed to the recently signed trade agreement between Australia and New Zealand.

This is made clear in a book to be published next year by the recently founded Sydney University Press and called ‘•Colony or Nation?” The book, edited by Michael Turnbull, formerly history lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, surveys many aspects of New Zealand's economic policy.

Dr. Sutch says in the book that New Zealand is passing through the third of three major economic crises it has faced in its history. The first, he says, was the long depression between 1865 and 1895. the second of the 1930 s and the third concerns the problems of growth in the present decade.

“New Zealand's crisis in the 1960 s is one of time as well as attitude—a failure to understand fully the fact and nature of a crisis that has already arrived; and failure to meet it quickly enough. It is also a crisis of dependence—a decisive moment about our future—colony or nation?” The Sydney University Press which has a New Zealander, H. C. L. Price, as manager, and another, Mr Turnbull, as editor, has been created to publish “scholarlyworks.”

The first publications of the press will be available at the end of this month. Dr. Sutch's book will probably be published about April, 1966.

Much of the book comprises papers Dr. Sutch presented to various organisations. The first section detailing the economic crisis of last century was presented to the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Ad-

vancement of Science in 1957; the second, entitled “Crisis and Recovery” on the depression of the 19305, was read to the Wellington branch of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand two years later. The third section, which deals with present-day problems and is entitled “Problems of Growth,” covers various addresses made since 1959, as well as several sections written specially for the book. Dr. Sutch, who once said New Zealand should develop specialised industries and become “the Switzerland of the South Pacific.” writes of suggested criteria for development, aspects of economic maturity such as the arts, architecture and tourism, training for industry, and the full development of human resources within the country.