POPULATION PROBLEMS

Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 7

POPULATION PROBLEMS

AUSTRALIA'S CASE DISCUSSED

LONDON, July 21. In an artiolo headed ‘ Lessons of the Census,’ in the ‘ Observer,’ Mr CarrSaunders Charles Booth, professor of social science at Liverpool University, says:—

“When normal times return Australia and New Zealand will require larger populations, but it does not look as though the present inhabitants will long continue to increase or that the countries upon which they are accustomed to draw v. ill long have a surplus of people. There is no cause for alarm, however, because when the decrease comes it will bo slow, and the fit community anxious to survive will then replace itself. The coloured races are likely enough to increase, but their possessing the earth is another_ matter. With the exception of Australia, which lias never been adequately populated, the white countries have nothing to fear from the poverty-stricken masses of the East, however large they become, because their increase is at the expense of their material well-being.”