POPULATION REPORT
Sir, —It seems almost incomprehensible that a Parliamentary Select Committee should find we do not need more people on the land.' Is it without significance that New Zealand, in proportion to the few engaged, extracts more primary wealth for the many than any other country in the world, including Australia and Canada? Results are for anyone with two eyes in his head to see. Dilapidation and inadequacy of farm steadings, often little more than improvisations; the anaemic condition of the soil; gorse in the gullies; erosion, on the hills; and thousands of acres of once, useful foothill and semi-montane country abandoned, or on the way to it. And we don’t need more people on the land! Had the committee stated that under an archaic system of economics, which unashamedly sweats the land and its workers, it declined the responsibility of recommending more people to go there, one might have understood.-—Yours, etc., Y. T. SHAND. September 21, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24987, 23 September 1946, Page 2
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