SUNNY OLD AGE AND EMPTY CRADLES
Veteran Bowlers' Day, celebrated in Wellington yesterday, is for young fellows of seventy summers and over. Human institutions are young at seventy, but the human body is supposed to be near its limit at the very age when Veteran Bowlers' Day begins to raise its recruits. How diffident these septuagenarians must have felt when an advanced performer opened the tournament, in his prime at 93. We now have to face the possibility of a hun-
dred years replacing seventy as normal old age, and of an excess of death-rate over birth-rate becoming regarded as established. Recently the Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes was reported as saying in Australia that the statistical trend there indicates that an annual excess of deaths over births would begin in 1968. But so many things can happen before 1968. If one-half the world keeps birthrale and death-rate at present levels, and if the other half advances to the point of becoming a dying race of high average age, something is sure to happen.
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Evening Post, Issue 26, 31 January 1935, Page 12
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