SOCIAL CONDITIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 6

SOCIAL CONDITIONS.

I think the declining , birth rate is to bi commended instead of deplored in view of the poverty, unemployment, labour unrest and heavy taxation. Every man in the etreet knows that it is futile for politicians, patrioti or economists to tell the people to product more children so long as they are penalised thereby in the struggle for existence, as they are at present. It" is to be hoped that the birth rate will continue to decline uiitil the race is in jeopardy, when perhaps the necessary food, housing and economic guarantees will be given to the people, and the population wiD then easily be kept up to national requirements. As a business man in one of the largert offices of this city, it is obvious to me that it is perfectly useless for your correspondent to ever expect kividness or consideration to be shown to the young folk under our present social conditions, for business in this city i» as merciless as cold steel and looks at ye" with a glittering eye like that of a snake. PRIVATE Xo. 90566, X.Z.E.F.