Aluminium And Steel
Sir, —V. Wilkinson is again astray, as lifting import controls would heavily reduce our overseas reserves and cause mass unemployment, as was the case when Australia took them off on the advice of the World Bank, from which it was borrowing heavily. G.A.T.T. governments, except Britain, are Tory, ard, like our Tory Government, opposed import controls when in opposition, but put them on when getting into
power. “P.0.W.” does not say why the Ashburton glassworks and the salmon factory failed, but was it due to pressure from vested interests as with the Auckland glassworks? Surely “PO.W.” does not think that farming could take the labour from closed factories if import controls were lifted? —Yours, etc., DISILLUSIONED NATIONALIST. March 21, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31016, 23 March 1966, Page 18
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