"FACING NEMESIS."
MORE BABIES NEEDED.
HOSPITAL SECRETARY'S PLAN.
(From Our Correspondent.)
NAPIER, Monday.
"We are facing Nemesis —we have a preponderance of elderly .people and not enough young people to look after them." said Mr. E. T. Rees, managing secretary of the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board, at the Napier Rotary Club's luncheon to-day, when he spoke on the "twin phenomena" of a shortage of nurses and an increase in hospital patients. He referred to the decrease in the size of families since the war, and suggested a children's allowance to encourage larger families.
"I tremble to think what it will he like in another 20 years," Mr. Rees continued. "Last year births in ?Jew Zealand were only 24.000, which is absolutely ridiculous.. There is in the Statute Book a children's allowance of, I think, 2/ a week for every child after the first two. I would increase that to 10/ and give parents of families of more than two children £25 a year.
"The sum of £1,000,000 would provide for 40.000 children, and if it would encourage 40,000 extra births for the cost of £1.000,000 it would be the finest thing-we e*er. did.** "if
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1938, Page 10
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