TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Surprising Facts “At the last census, according to the Economist’s calculations, Germany had 140 inhabitants per square kilometre. Britain has 264, that is, there is nearly twice as great a pressure in Britain in spite of the colonies which we possess. Moreover, only one-tenth of Germany is uncultivable land, whereas one-fifth of our land cannot be cultivated. In spite of all our colonies, we have a not annual increment of population, due to the return of emigrants from Dominions overseas. Before the war Germany had an annual increase in population of 730,000. She had a total emigration of 25,000, but, of these, according to the Economist, the average emigration to the colonies in the last pre-war years was 33. In 1913 the total number of all the Germans in the colonies, after 30 years of Empire, was 19,700, of whom more than 3000 were German soldiers and police. The result was that they had transplanted one thirty-seventh of the annual increase in their population.” —Mr Noel Baker, in the House of Gommpns.