Foreign aid
Sir, — If your editorial of February 19 is any indication, any lingering notions that New Zealand is a Christian country will now have been put to death. To assess the extent of our foreign aid on the relative basis of what everybody else is doing will lead only to a selfish consolation. The major need of developing countries would appear to be encouragement at the village level of public health, housing and agriculture. This we can assist in by sponsoring personnel and an appropriate technology for each need. We should not expect any economic or political benefit for ourselves. We should remain uncomfortable until we achieve, world-wide, ap egalitarian life-style consistent with the natural resources given to us. — Yours, etc., STUART NICHOLSON. February 19, 1977.
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