Diversifying exports
Sir,—l read with amusement of Mr Jean Knecht “chiding” New Zealand for slowness in diversifying: "80 per cent of exports made up of agricultural products is too much. Your Government should have foreseen this long before now.” May I point out that the man who has foreseen this long before now, Dr W. B. Sutch, was ignominiously retired long before it was necessary? Maybe it is time now to con-
vey a few words of apology to Dr Sutch, who foresaw our present position and did everything that was in his power to see to it that New Zealand had a secondary industry able to export and substitute local production for imports.—Yours, etc., ECONOMIST. ; February 18, 1971.
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Press, Issue 32535, 19 February 1971, Page 8
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