KEEPING UP POPULATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3376, 3 January 1920, Page 7

KEEPING UP POPULATION.

I —-———o————- ‘ In the course of «a lecture which he :gzlve in Sydney, Dr. Truby King, in ireferring to decreases in ‘population, {stated that the" population of France I was going down at the r:J.'»e of nearly ‘half *3. million a year. The position ‘was not so much less serious in England, and that which had been going‘ (on in other places was procee-ding: ‘among ourselves. The increase in po—pulation in Eastern countries was most; { ‘marked, m<d very strongly shown: I where fhe F-List met the West at Heno- I lulu. The .Tepnnese there were inere:ls- E ing to :1. renm:'kabl-_- exten‘:. If it should be proved that the 13:-<’te1'n: natiruns ‘were more moral than our-,Solvc-s, and made more sacrifir‘,es for j the eonlinuiir_\' of the race. !;ul'tl if we i did not populate our country. had We :1 ! i'iglnt to deny other races_the right to come -Fr>l-warcl and populzife ‘those 7',-l.:w<r~: ‘-Jrhich We were not populatizig? (Appl:luse.) ‘ -