PLANNING FOR SETTLEMENT
(TO the Editor.) Sir,—The report in Saturday's "Post" that Japan plans to extend settlement in the "South Seas" by means of development companies is interesting to New Zealand if for no other reason than that, a century ago, ambitious Englishmen were planning to do the same thing. New. Zeajand is one of the fruits of those plans. But what the Japanese have learned after a hundred years we seem to have forgotten; that planning is necessary to advance settlement where once planning was necessary to begin it. To carry this out the Government of Japan acts; not so in New Zealand apparently, for here neither Government nor people will realise that many of their petty ills would disappear if they grappled now with the major cause of most of them: population. This is quite apart from the supposition that the expression "South Seas," as used in Japan may one day assume significance for New Zealand.—l am, etc., L. R. PALMER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 141, 16 June 1936, Page 8
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