Caution urged over immigration
The Environmental Vanguard Organisation in Christchurch has sent a telegram to the Minister of Immigration (Mr Colman) sharing concern with the Canterbury Trades Council over large-scale immigration to New Zealand.
The chairman of the organisation (Dr H. Hervey) said that in the telegram the orI ganisation suggested that great caution was needed over the immigration policy if the New Zealand economy was to be kept on an even keel without excessive pressure on services and re- 1 sources. In a letter to Mr Colman. I Dr Hervey said that the or-; ganisation had discussed the population question from time to time and realised that population pressure was behind many environmental I problems. “Perhaps New Zealand can
help bel t by keeping her own economy as stable as possible, and producing as much food as cheaply as possible for the rest of the world. She will not best, achieve this by allowing large-scale immigration over a short period—which would strain the economy seriously and tend to throw it off balance,” she (said.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33425, 5 January 1974, Page 12
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