‘Admit more Asians’
New Zealand’s immigration policies should be more racially relaxed, the conference of the Retailers’ Federation was told by its president (Mr C. O. Gibbs) yesterday, the Press Association reports. Mr Gibbs said that more relaxed policies would make it possible for people with skilly and re-
sources to settle in New Zealand. “New Zealand must look to its neighbours in South-East Asia for future markets. I am sure that we will need to develop a greater sensitivity to the tastes of the Asian markets before we can develop their obvious potential,” he told the conference, in Palmerston North.
Mt Gibbs said New Zealanders were still reluctant to realise that their future lay in South-East Asia. An economy based on sending bulk farm produce to Europe could not last. “We have been priced off the market by freight and other cost increases, quite apart from E.E.C. protection,” he said.
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