Export Income
Sir, —Of this there is ample, provided we deal realistically with it. First and foremost, the fact must be accepted that 90 per cent of that income is derived from produce from our land, agricultural and pastoral. After that, It must be recognised that we cannot expect people on the other side of the world to pay more just because we want more, and want it to keep up our cost of high living. Then, it must be realised that the problem of our net revenue is now, so that the surplus must be gained from that land income now, not from wishful thinking about possible manufactured exports in any substantial bulk in 40 or 50 years. If politicians could evolve, and become committed to provide, a lower cost structure for the production and processing and export of that massive 90 per cent, the way would in good time be paved for progress to the second desirable stage of nationhood.— Yours, etc., WALRUS. April 14, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31346, 17 April 1967, Page 12
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