The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1946. IF WE INCREASE POPULATION

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 28, 23 September 1946, Page 4

The Bay of Plenty Beacon Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1946. IF WE INCREASE POPULATION

MEASURE OF INCOME

Whakatane Rainfall The rainfall in Whakatane during the 24-hour period up to 8 a.m. this morning amounted to .99 inches.

Red Cross Fund A street stall will be held in the Strand on Friday, September 27, in support of the general purposes fund of the Red Cross Society. Donations of cakes and produce etc. will be appreciated, and these may be left at Mrs Winstone’s residence, 5 Victoria Avenue, or at the stall on the day.

“Pakeha” A Good Term The suggestion that the term “pakeha” was invested with other than its generally accepted meaning, made by Mr R. M. Algie during a recent debate in Parliament, was not upheld by Mr Herries Beattie, an authority on the history of the early days in southern New Zealand, during an address to the annual meeting of the Gore and Districts Early Settlers’ Association. The name, he said, had a respectable meaning and an unblemished reputation. The word used by the Maori was an honourable term and . not what Mr Algie tried to make it out to be.

Street Construction

ALMOST all the evidence given so far to the Parliamentary Committee on Population supports the view that economically and for defence reasons, New Zealand needs to be more densely peopled. The point was discussed early in the conference of the Empire, Ministers in London, where it was pointed out that the proposed decentralisation of responsibility for defence into geographical zones conferred on the Empire countries in each defence region the need to be strong enough to be effective. This applied with particular force to Australia and New Zealand in the South-west Pacific. Both nations are sparsely populated while to the near North are the teeming millions of Asia, the Malay Archipelago and Indonesia. Both in London and in evidence to the Parliamentary Committee, however, it has been pointed out that until housing is available to meet the needs of Australians and New Zealanders, neither country could embark on any immigration programmes. While this is a selfevident truth, it simply emphasises the already apparent need for pressing ahead with housing with all possible speed, to foreshorten the time, put at three years, it is now expected will elapse before our immediate housing needs are met. Moreover, it is becoming more than ever apparent that there is an overall need for long-term planning, in economic, industrial, social and community spheres. Already, in centres such as Wanganui, there is growing recognition that regional planning is overdue. The day is past when factories and other industrial premises can be built in any locality where a piece of suitable property is available. Evidence of the ills arising from a Topsy-like development is all too apparent today and the best corrective is so to plan future growth that residential, commercial, industrial and recreational areas will conform to the physical and social needs of the community. This would be desirable without an influx of immigrants at a later date, but supposing that the Parliamentary Committee should find it desirable for economic and geopolitical reasons to increase our population by even half a million, it would be absolutely essential.

THE truth is that the real measure of our income is not by money, but by what we can get for our money. If we all had the same money income that we have now, and we all produced twice as much goods or work as we do now, we should be twice as well off. If we all had the same money income as we have now, and produced only half the goods or work that we do now, we should be miserably poor. The secret of wealth is in the production of goods, not money. All we can do with money is spend it or lend it.—Theodore Taylor.

Colision With Post A nasty accident occurred on Saturday during' the Te Whaiti v Paroa Rugby match at the Whakatane Domain for the J. Pile Memorial Cup, when A. Porter, the Te Whaiti fullback, collided with one of the concrete posts marking the boundary of the field. The head injury which he sustained was attended to by the St. John Ambulance officer on duty, and he was later removed to the Whakatane Public Hospital. His condition is now satisfactory.

In answer to the request of Messrs. Thomas and Seddon, State Housing Department Officers, who waited on the Works Committee of the Whakatane Borough Council at its last meeting with plans and specifications for the construction of a street in the Garaway and Campbell block, it was resolved that the ForemanEngineer confer with the Housing Department Officers, and after framing estimates submit a firm price to be forwarded to the Department through the Council. The plans call for a 26’ carriageway tarsealed, with concrete footpaths, kerbing and channelling.