WORLD POPULATION.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19142, 27 October 1927, Page 6

WORLD POPULATION.

PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S VIEW. (BT CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION COPIBTCHT). AND N.Z AKD SUN CABLZ.) LONDON, October 25. ' Professor Julian Huxley, in an article in the "Evening Standard," entitled "Arc We Overpopulated?" examined {lie findings of the Population Confermice, which was held iu Genera in August. He exphasises the rapidity, biologic-, ally speaking, of the effects-of even a small ratio increase He states: "This has an immediate bearing on immigration. We might hear Japan and Italy claiming the right that underpopulated countries, like the United States, and still more, Canada, and Australia, should open their doors, instead of making ingress difficult, or impossible, but if the barriers were removed the spaces would be filled in fifty or hundred years, instead of in two or three hundred years. Migrating countries would merely get rid of their surplus and again become-as overcrowded as before.

"After Mr Thomas's speech at Gen-' ova," he concludes, "I think all realised that the United States and Australia liad the same right to demand that these countries should lower their birthrates.".