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New Zealand: Imperialism, Class and Uneven Development

Some years ago the present writer completed a study examining the causes and consequences of the severe regional imbalances which had developed in New Zealand (see Armstrong, 1970). In this, the implications of dependence, specialised staples production for the metropolis, blocked domestic industrial development, and a distorted pattern of regional development, were studied in some detail. In the concluding chapter the following statement was made: The political decisions of the colonisiswhether by omission or commission to