MORE CHILDREN
New Zealand’s Lack Of Population , Speaking at a meeting of the Nursery Play Centre Association held at Hataitai last night, Mr. A. Leigh Hunt said the (mother was the chief patriot of the coun try; she was doing more for it than anyone else and everything should be done for her in return. It should be made economically possible for people. to have more children, instead of feeling that every new child was an. extra burden. Taxation should be reversed so that no one need 'be without children for economic reasons.
The Dominion Settlement Association, of which he was chairman, was beginning a campaign throughout New Zealand shortly, to make people aware of the urgent need there was for more population. Childless couples after the war would be asked to take some of the orphans from the European theatre of war and adopt them. “If we don’t, have plans for peopling this country, we will have it taken from us after the war,” he said. If the rate of natural increase was allowed to continue as it was. at present for another 60 years. New Zealand would be back to the figure that prevailed 20 years after the first settlers landed at Petone.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 6
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205MORE CHILDREN Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 6
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