NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE
PEOPLING THE BRITISH COMMON. WEALTH, by G. F, McCleary; Faber and Faber, English price 18/-. HIS is a well-balanced and up-to-date appraisal of the Empire migration position. We are, of course, vitally interested in migration, or we ought to be. In spite of some encouraging improvement in post-war years it is clear that the pakeha: birthrate will never populate New Zealand. In all Anglo-Saxon communities some vital force has declined. As Dr. McCleary says, there has been laid upon us a painless hand-of willed sterility. Not by a foreign enemy: we laid it upon ourselves, Recourse to shameful or criminal practices has been an added factor. The result of our high Maori birthrate will be a mixed race in a generation or two, which is satisfactory; but there will not be enough people. So we must rely on. migration. From where? Not Britain (which has herself a declining population), or not for long, anyway. Not Ireland, which is vigorously discouraging emigration; nor Scandinavia, Germany or France, which have low birthrates. Perhaps from Greece, Italy or Poland, But in the end I rather think it will be from Asia. And
why not?
F. J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 869, 29 March 1956, Page 14
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