AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24799, 13 February 1946, Page 9

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

POPULATION PROBLEM

“THIRTY YEARS TO FILL EMPTY AREAS ’’ "The Press” Special Service

AUCKLAND. February 12 i-Tbe urgency,of the population probthS 1 Australia and New Zealand and tlm, necessity for the closest co-opera-uS?Jrt t 3t e , n the two countri es and the cto < d S r? t^ s were emphasised by Sir Hlcks ’ professor of physiology Sf d AS?U’!?‘ Col jF y .. at the UniversUy forfh- 1 : a .” d dlre ctor of catering r ,Pl® Australian Army, in an address eon h Auckland Rotary Club’s lunch-

onm^nr, St i a i, nt i on *i. expressed the opinion that the Commonwealth and had at the putside 30 nn a carry out policies designed to prinJ? . m r TL pt . y • areas - Sir Stanton Hicks said that in the course of his Army service it had been terrifying to ..up. to see how much good land available for settlement in Australia had not been used.

Discussing the food shortage In Britain, Sir Stanton Hicks said that throughout Australia there had been a spontaneous movement to provide increased supplies for export. Comparing the present reaction with that which the of Dunkirk, when 48.000 men enlisted in a few days. Sir Stanton Hicks said that he had no fear for the fundamental pulse which made the Empire beat, but more than sentiment was required when necessary food supplies had to be forwarded. We must think in advance.” Sir Stanton Hicks concluded. “We have had a good time in this part of the world, but I do not think we shall be allowed to enjoy past luxuries in the future.”