PROVISION OF WORK

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 319, 5 September 1932, Page 5

PROVISION OF WORK

(Press Assn.-

A WORLD PROBLEM PROFESSORS PROPOSE EXPERIMENTAL COLONY PARLIAMENT IN COMPETENT

— By Telegraph — Copyrlght)

. London, Sept. 2. At a meeting of th'e British Association it was stated that it h&s been ascertained that only fifteen per cent. of mankind is usefully working, the remainder being occupied in uxmecessary trading. Professor Miles Walker suggests that the Government should found an experimental, voluntary, selfsupporting colony under the auspices of scientists, engineers, and economists, in which an estimate should be made of the standard of life which the average inhabitant could obtain if they worked well, aided by the best machinery. Not a quarter of those at present engaged in retail distribution was needed. Yested rights were continually interfering and lowering prices, consequent on the development of science. Parliament was filled with incompetents unable to solve the equation with two unknown terms and much less complicated problems with nxany unknown terms. The procedure was antiquated, and a business conference would reach sounder decisions in a fortnight than the Housa would reach in the entira session. Struggle for NeAV Equilibrium Professor R. D. Forrester deciared that it could be argued that Britain must recognise that her traditional de-

pendence on the large overseas market was no longcr feasible. The struggle for a new equilibrium would involve increased dependence on th>e home market or those overseas markets where characteristic British production hold the price. Britain is faced with a tariff larger in proportion to her trade than any country except Germany. Trade could be improved if the overseas markets were studied and analysed and a distributive organisation developed, enabling British firms to keop in closer touch with the sale of goods overseas. The world tendency was for many industries to become dependent on the domestic market. The redistribution of the markets is a normal incident of , trade history. Britain's prohlem is to ' work her way through the new equili- i brium of foreign saies and new distribution of industries. Migration of Labour and Capital j Mr. Coatman deciared that an or- j ganised scheme for the migration of ! labour and capital to start new in- 1 dustries or extend old would go a | long way to remedy the present inperfections of population and industrial ' distribution in the Dominions. He emphasised the great increases in population in Southern and Eastern Europe and still greater in India and Japan, while those of Britain and Germany were decreasing. The west2i*n races controlled a large part of the vacant land, and meant to do so more rigidly in the future. Canada and Australia could, and ought to, absorb all British emigrants. Great Destructioxi by Insects Every year insects destroy enough Empire food to feed 45,0000,000 people deciared Mr. A. W. Hill, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, in emphasising the need for a larger army of scientific workers.