Kōrero: Government and industrial development

National Development Conference, 1972

National Development Conference, 1972

The government held a number of conferences involving industry in the 1960s and 1970s, part of a general move towards broad economic planning. This is the opening of the 1972 National Development Conference, held in Parliament’s Legislative Council chamber. The two-day event was attended by 300 people. The conferences were more than talk-fests – at this one, importers and manufacturers forced the government to abandon a planned liberalisation of import licensing. The New Zealand Planning Council, set up in 1977, was an indirect result of these conferences.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1972/1340

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Megan Cook, 'Government and industrial development - Intervention, 1960s and 1970s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/25861/national-development-conference-1972 (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010