N.Z. as a Third World country
Sir, — On April 1 our financial wizard gained for New Zealand the status of a Third World country. I define a Third World country as a primary producer whose produce is too expensive for the inhabitants to eat. It is now cheaper to eat imported peanut butter than our own; we cannot afford to eat our own wheat, but must import Canadian wheat; the price of beef is to double, yet again; we sell leather to Australia, only to import it; our Government borrows Japanese money to buy “Japanese trinkets” that we do not need. And to top it off, our Government wants to cut health spending and to buy a SIOOM frigate. Must we become a “banana republic” as well? — Yours, etC " R. H. FINDLAY. April 4, 1979.
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Press, 7 April 1979, Page 14
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