IMMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND
Sir,—Mrs M. Tripp is right when she says we could do with another 4,000,000 people, but she is wrong when she says they cannot be obtained from Britain. Britain’s strategic weakness is that her population is too large lor the food she can produce. Our strategic weakness is that while we can produce more than enough food, our population is too small for our own defence The strategic plan of the future therefore calls for a transfer of population from Britain to these shores. Scandinavia to which Mrs M. Tripp refers, has a far smaller population, and requires far less foodstuffs from the outside world, and has thus a far smaller surplus available for transfer, but they would be a welcome addition. If Scandinavian girls were imported as domestic servants, as they were to America, they would soon become New Zealanders, and stop doing the work which was the duty of another ablebodied woman.—Yours, etc., OBSERVER. May 12, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23946, 13 May 1943, Page 6
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