POPULATION CONTROL

Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 12

POPULATION CONTROL

“Raise Living Standards”

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 18. Two strong impressions remained with the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand (Sir David Smith) after his recent visit to the Far East, he told members of the Royal Commonwealth Society today. The first was the need to raise the standard of living This he considered might be more easily accomplished if by some means the growth of population could be controlled. Sir David Smith said Japan was one country that, by a programme of birth control, had partially succeeded in controlling its population Elsewhere the difficulty was that material assistance went hand-in-hand with a rise tn population, so that the last state tended to be no b tter than the first The second main impression he gained from his visit was how fortunate the British people were to be living in comparative prosperity, under a sound rule of law ard in a democracy where Governments could be removed after a reasonably short period of time if they did not please the voters. The freedoms they possessed meant much to the full development of the human personality. People so fortunate owed something to those who were cot so fortunate.