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PROF. DH J. TINBERGEN

THE HAGUE, l8 )ctoher 1950
Sijzenlaan "+1

Prof. Mr C. Weststrate,
Department of^conomics,
Canterbury university College,
Christchurch C.1,
New Zealand
Dear Weststrate,
I was very glad to hear from you and,
as you write, the suggestion that your three colleagues and
yourself would prepare in some way a planning activity for
New Zealand is very interesting indeed. I quite agree with
you, however, that it is impossible for you to carry out
this planning currently. I therefore èhl&te^like you do, that
the preparation of a memorandum would be the best solution.
Permanent activities or even a broader piece of Incidental
research should be left to people free to devote their full
time to it.
As to literature, may I make the following
suggestions? On the one hand there is Prof.Zweig's book
"Planning in a free Society", which perhaps still gives a
good background. More concrete information might be
obtained from the experiences of the existing planning
offices like the ones in Norway, Denmark, the U.K. and
Holland. Some such reports on these activities have been
submitted to some recent conferences and I am sending you
(by steamer) so'~ie of ours.
Some of the further information you ask on .^^p
the functioning of a planning office is already involved in
these papers, but I am adding a few others giving details
about our work. We have had sufficient contact with similar
offices in other countries to know that our methods do not
differ so very much from those tested elsewhere.
I hope your efforts will have a good
success!
Best personal regards,

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