MORE POPULATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 285, 1 December 1936, Page 14

MORE POPULATION.

NEW ZEALAND NEED URGED. Though it was one of tlie most beautiful places in the world, New Zealand hail a wee'ill of.mttu'rai resources as yet untouched and could maintain 13,000,000 people instead of its present population of less than 2,000,000, said Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, chairman of the Dominion Settlement -Association, in a recent address in the Wellington Theosopliical Hall (states the "Dominion"). He said it was believed by all those interested in Empire welfare that a sound migration policy would be the quickest and sim[ij'est method of allocating unemployment, and would tend f,, om the outset to better economic conditions. The lecturer compafed the proposed lew method of* selecting and subsidising :i.r-se who came with the method eni\oved in previous peiiods —and said he .vaa sure that New Zealand would have iveiv assistance from the Mother Coun,rv, who realised as iwvci before that n* 'his plan lay tli>3 solution not only o her own at present insoluble unem)loynient problem, but also to_ the greater problem of surplus population. Here was New Zealand's opportunity j o establish herself as a nation—the« 'Brighter Britain of the South Seas"; lot just a part of the British Commonwealth of Nations, but a nation herself, equipped and populated sufficiently to levelop and absorb all the treasures of the country, numerous enough to defend wHvf^i * rom .land hungry aliens, and to nut-u rat .i° °f population sufficient -SL her definitely out of the list of I ™" 4 ° ther