BRITAIN’S POPULATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 February 1925, Page 8

BRITAIN’S POPULATION.

LOSING WORKERS. LONDON, Jan. 12. Britain's population is declining, and by 192 d there will be 2,000,000 workers less in the country than there are today, was the statement; made by Sir .Robert- Blair, late chief officer of t-lie London County Council. This depressing forecast is t-lie subject of comment in the morning papers here. Sir Robert declares there are a million fewer children in the primary classes of the schools than there were in 1911. “We are losing 100,000 children each year from -each age group,’ lie declared. lie attributes this to the falling birth rate, while emigration is also thought to be responsible. Many economists who believe that England can not support so large a population as she is now doing in a, decent living, think that this predicted reduction will prove beneficial if it does not rob the country of its productive workers, but eliminates the superfluity of administrative workers, which at present clogs the labour market, especially in London.

THOUSANDS FOR CANADIAN FARMS. IMPERIAL SETTLEMENT SCHEME. LONDON, Jan. 7. Arrangements are being made to convey more than two hundred families-, comprising one-,thousand persons, from the agricultural areas of the United Kingdom to Canada, the Daily Telegraph says. These are to settle on farms' which are being prepared for them through the .joint action of the British and Canadian Governments. Residents of the north of Scotland, South Wales, and the west and south of England will be among the emigrants. . The British Government is advanc-iu.-r P3OU fo'- the equipment of each farm taken up by the new settlers in thousand settlers will leave for Canada shortly.