EMPIRE'S EMPTY SPACES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21907, 7 October 1936, Page 9

EMPIRE'S EMPTY SPACES

LACK OE SURPLUS POPULATION

PROBLEMS OF MIGRATION DISCUSSED

SOLUTION SEEN IN MORE

BABIES

(UNITED P&KS3 ASSOCIATION —COPTBIGHT.) (Received October 6, 11.30 p.m.)

LONDON, October 6

The “Morning Post,” in a leader on migration, says: “Hitherto it has been customary to speak of the necessity of filling the Dominions empty spaces from our own surplus, but the moment is approaching when the Empire will be .compelled to review the whole problem in a new light, because in a very few years, so far from having a surplus, we shall ourselves be suffering a decline in population.' “Can Britain therefore afford to suffer additional diminution through migration, lest man power and resources become dangerously weakIn other words, ought we to encourage renewed, migration until our birthrate shows a sustained and sub- “ You can only fill up the Empire out of a continuing surplus, and now that no surplus is being produced, either in Britain or the Dominions, the problem has begun to wear an entirely, different aspect. Clearly the solution is more babies, and that subject ought to engage the anxious attention of any future Impenax conference.”