Car industry
Sir,—One has become accustomed over the years to the eccentric views of “The Economist” expressed in articles which have appeared in “The Press,” but the article making a special plea for the motor-car industry (February 5), as an excursion into sociology, plumbs a nadir which it is hard to imagine even “The Economi^ 1 ’ exceeding. The
idea that not owning cars makes people “subservient to the local commissar or nomenklatura or Brahmin landlord or Lenin Steel Pipe factory or whoever else is the local monopoly employer,” Is novel if nothing else. New Zealand is, presumably, among the favoured car-owning nations. How then does the closing Ford vehicle assembly plant in Lower Hutt square with “The Economist’s” thesis? The Ford plant is obviously a monopoly employer for its own employees and those of factories supplying components to Ford. Surely this New Zealand example destroys a piece of ill-considered “Economist” thinking.—Yours, etc., M. CREEL. February 5, 1986.
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Press, 10 February 1986, Page 12
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