ENTRY TO EUROPE
‘Britain Has
Three Years’
If Britain did not become a full member of the European Economic Community in the next two or three years the period for joining would have passed, said the general manager of the overseas division of the International Harvester Company (Mr M. O. Johnson) in Christchurch this week.
Britain then would have to go its own way with the rest of the free trade group in Europe, the Commonwealth, the United States, and Canada.
Mr Johnson, speaking at the opening of a data-processing centre at the Christchurch office of his company, said it was inconceivable that, if Britain entered the E.E.C., a country as important to Western civilisation as New Zealand would not be adequately accommodated. The Labour member of Parliament for Riccarton .(Mr M. A. Connelly) opened the data processing centre. Mr Connelly told about 60 guests that the company’s turn-over represented in New Zealand money about $1720m a year, about half as much again as the revenue of the New Zealand Government. The company employed 114,000 persons, compared with 120,000 public servants, railways staff, and post office staff employed in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31461, 30 August 1967, Page 10
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191ENTRY TO EUROPE Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31461, 30 August 1967, Page 10
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