The list goes on. Each step of the process, and each facilitator, represents a missed opportunity to disrupt this shipment. The enormous profit to be made from drug trafficking will ensure that the international drug-trade is here to stay. And it is enormous amounts of money in the hands of criminals that should perhaps be of greatest concern, to those in this room.
Way back in August 1943, the Reserve Bank wrote to all the state governments about and I quote from that correspondence, "having sample enquiries conducted rapidly in typical areas with a view to finding out the extent of indebtedness on the eve of the war; how it has been affected by subsequent developments; how agriculturists and moneylenders have reacted to them, what are the tendencies and work for and against the utilisation of incomes for liquidation of old debts-.." This shortfall was bridged post-independence by the Reserve Bank's rural credit survey of 1951-52.