If i lie number of births in New Zealand continues to fall, as it is doing today. the population of I he Dominion in 100 .'-ears is going to l>e reduced to 500000. This was the rather startling announcement made at the annual meeting of the Wairoa branch of the Blanket Society by Dr. S. W. .1. liarbutt. He .stated that one of the most important things to any country was its man power, and, with a falling birth-rate, man power was also being reduced. He bad heard people isk what, was the use of raising children who were to become gnu fodder later on. That "'as an entirely wrong attitude. The bigger the family Hie stronger a country would be. will) the result, he -said, that there would be lees likelihood of trouble.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 221, 15 June 1938, Page 12
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