Overseas travel expenditure
Sir, — According to “The Press on Saturday, for 1980 “New Zealand’s exports and imports balanced.” With the deficit on so-called “invisibles,” including overseas travel, running at over a billion dollars a year, this indicates another disastrously bad balance-of-pay-nrtents performance. To improve the situation, I have advocated a Governmentbacked TV campaign to persuade New Zealanders to refrain voluntarily from inessential spending on overseas imports, a tightening of import controls, and controls
■, on overseas travel such as rationing people to no more than one overseas holiday per five .years, A. K. Shepherd responds by accusing me of wanting “a police State.” This is so ridiculous and emotive that it amounts to trying to argue an im-. portant problem. by means of personal abuse. — Yours, etc. MARK D. SADLER. February 2, 1981.
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Press, 3 February 1981, Page 18
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