THE WORLD WE WANT.
Sir,-Your most interesting ballot will no doubt bring you more letters than it is possible for you to deal with. We all long to answer your questions. What disappoints me in the answers is that, with the exception of two, they give no suggestion as to how the reforms they hope for should be brought about. Everyone of us wants peace and we all want-at least in theory-well-distributed prosperity. What we want to know from a ballot is to what extent, in the opinion of the voter, the individual should be
allowed to reap the reward of his industry and ability and, alternatively, to what extent the goods of the world should be equally distributed. However -if we survive-these things will. regulate themselves, if only by the process of trial and error. My personal hopes and fears range much further ahead. I hope that before it is too late, New Zealand will awaken to the fact that with our. present birthrate we have no possibility of survival, and will take steps to increase our population by endowing motherhood bountifully enough to at-
tract the majority of women to it as their career. What I expect (or fear) is too horrible to visualise in detail-the Rising Tide of Colour swelling and overwhelm-
ing us.-
HELEN
WILSON
(Hamilton).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 291, 19 January 1945, Page 7
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