The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday October 1st 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1003, 1 October 1912, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday October Ist 1912. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The current issue of the TradReview remarks that “the prose pect for the export season just opening is decidedly bright—a good clip of wool is anticipated generally, and the outlook for prices is considered very promising, while the dairying season has also a particularly hopeful outlook, and contracts have been made for outputs of hemp for some months at very remunerative prices. We may, therefore, expect to see our exports for the season bring in an excellent return, which will ease the money market generally later on, though the coming month or

so will witness the usual demand for money to assist in moving the season's produce. Money is therefore hardly likely to be much easier till alter the end of the year.”

Mr L. G. Chiozza Money, writing recently in a London newspaper, makes an earnest plea for a larger birth-rate on the part of the white races. “The white races,” he says, “are a small minority in the world, and they cannot continue to lead the world unless they maintain numerical as well as intellectual and moral strength.” To emphasise the seriousness of the position as it concerns the British Empire, Mr Money presents a “close estimate” of the Imperial population for 1911. The United Kingdom is credited with a white population of 45,000,000, Canada 6,950,000, Newfoundland 250,000, Australia 4.400.000, New Zealand 950,000, South Africa 1,400,000, India 300.000, and the rest of the Empire 250,000, making a grand total of white population 59.500.000, The colured population in India alone is given as 314.700.000, while South Africa adds 4,700,000, Canada 200,000, New Zealand 50,000, and the rest of the Empire 34,750,000, the total of the coloured population of the Empire being 354,500,000, The white population of the entire British Empire is less than the population of the German Empire in Europe, and not much larger than the population of Japan. Australia accommodates upon a huge continent a population about the same size as that contained within the jurisdiction of the Loudon County Council. The population of the United Kingdom, between a tail in the birthrate on one hand and the increased call of the overseas dominions on the other, is at a standstill, if it is not even declining. Mr Money admits that it is easier to deplore race suicide than to suggest practical steps to remedy it. It is idle to preach to men and women thejoyorthe duty of family lile under the stress and strain ot our present competitive social conditions. The more thoughtful and the more sell-respecting the citizen the less is he likely to respond to such an appeal. The remedy, then, Mr Money concludes, is to be found only in the solution ot the general social problem of which race suicide forms a striking phase.