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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 103, 25 January 1935, Page 3

The physical unfitness of the Japanese race was given by Mr. W. C. Mackay as one of the reasons why the Japanese are unable to solve their population problem by migrating to other climes, Mr. Mackay, who has recently returned from a visit to Japan, addressed "the Auckland Rotary Club on "The Japanese Crisis.” He said the race was unfitted to stand the rigours of other climates, and tuberculosis was rampant among them. In one insurance office he visited he found 26 young men of age for military I raining. but every one of them had been rejecl«/l as unfit. Practically all recruits for the army had to be drawn from the country districts.

Mr. J. R. Kirk, M.8.E., director of the Australian Provincial Assurance Association, Ltd., .who returned yesterday after a two-months’ visit to Australia, had an interesting, if uncomfortable, experience while motoring from Mount Buffalo to Melbourne last month. In one district he drove through a cloud of grasshoppers. “It was not a case of thousands or millions,” said Mr. Kirk, “for there were billions, and bad I not experienced it I could not have believed it. It was like travelling for miles through a snowstorm. Radiators of motor-cars must be protected, otherwise they become blocked by the pest and useless for their purpose, while the wind screen becomes quite objectionable by the numbers of grasshoppers which the impact of travel kills.”