Story: Government and industrial development

Marketing exports, 1977

The government’s export push continued through the 1970s. Here, Minister of Overseas Trade Brian Talboys addresses a 1977 export-marketing seminar organised by the Department of Trade and Industry. With him are, left to right, businessman G. V. Clough, R. W. Prestney of the Export Guarantee Office, and A. K. Robinson of the Department of Trade and Industry.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1977/3721/11a

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Megan Cook, Government and industrial development – Intervention, 1960s and 1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25865/marketing-exports-1977 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 23 February 2010.