Population
Sir, — With regard to your editorial published this morning, can you suggest how we can ever avoid a period of looking after an increasing proportion of elderly people? Even if our population increases until there is standing room only, there will still be a moment when New Zealand is full and, from then on, those of us living here will inexorably become older, with no room for any additional young people, home-grown or imported, to support us. The real problem is what do we regard as full and would we or our children really, want to live there? Two million was pretty good, three million . . . well, Auckland is getting a bit crowded, but otherwise it is O.K. Five million . . . and what about 10 million? Remember that every new mouth is chewing into that precious space and
resources that the 4000 million plus will need. — Yours, etc., lAN ORCHARD. April 14, 1976.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34131, 19 April 1976, Page 12
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