SCIENTIST WARNS THE WORLD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2796, 11 October 1924, Page 4

SCIENTIST WARNS THE WORLD.

KAK,TIT'S POPULATION' IX AT). 3000. COLOUR PKIML "Sliiiitliny room mi f!n' i-iirili will !)'■ lull up in 1 hi* year 300(1, when the population will be 700.(10(1. (loo. (Kid." said Professor .1. \Y. (Ircgnry ;ij in 1 1 ' s sill inn l nl' tin- Rrilisli Assoeiaiinn's conference here. TT<• explained ilml siinli a population i-milil only cxi.-t if fund supplies could he multiplied by Ilia precipitation nf I In* nil i i-.naii nf t lie atmosphere. "If the population nf Hie wnrld increases al (lie vale llml it did in lb-- years l!)U(i !,, Ifllu ( |be second ball' nf I lie lasi normal decade) ii unaid lie doubled in (iO veal's." lie said. "In 130 years I lie people nf the wnrld would at 1 his rale number 1i'.000.000.00O —(lie greatest number llm earth could feed,” Professor-Oregory struck a note nj' warning rei>a rding llie rise nf the cdniired races, and prophesied the swamping nf white coimnunilies in colonised lands. ■‘Since 10,10." he said, “European in 11 lienee has suffered extensive reductions in Asia and Africa. Durbin the past half-century the unprecedented increase In flic-white iure had been exceeded by that of .coloured people.

"In a democratic age increased disparity of numbers means an inevitable transfer of power. The

former prestige of personal authority of the white man has undergone moment nous decline. “White colonists have no chance of permanently occupying land near the overcrowded pails of Asia or accessible to the fast multiplying negroes of Africa. White merchants may find in these regions profitable trading centres, and may for a time rule and administer them: but when while enterprise has subdued the land, built railways, and utilised the rivers, the coloured man will oust the while from the few posts that require experts, lit South Africa particularly, the maintenance of’ white supremacy, ami even of a white Afrikander people, is doubtful. The spectre in South Africa is the steady replacement of white workers by negroes and halfcastes in the skilled occupations. “Australia will throw away a golden opportunity if it fails to secure (lie whole continent as the home of the white man.