SPECTRE OF FAMINE.
WHEN WHEATFIELiDS FAIL
SCIENCE THE ONLY HOPE. LONDON, Aug. 9. Sir Daniel Hall, scientific adviser to the Board of Agriculture, in an address before the British Association Congress, foreshadowed .the spectre of a great famine, when the world’s vheatfields were unable .to feed the multiplying peoples. The white peoples, the speaker said, might he forced to. resort to teetotalism and .vegetarianism, hut the races, who omitted meat and alcohol in order to multiply themselves, were permanent slave types, designed to function like the worker bees. Agriculture had lost the best brains owing to the small returns yielded. The flight from the land to the cities wa.s progressing everywhere. Over-popu-lation and. unemployment were terrible realities. Mankind’s only hope was scientifically to intensify cultivation of the existing land. Lord Bledisloe, Parliamentary Secretary .to the Ministry of Agriculture, said he believed that fertilisers would increase the world’s wheat production by 50 per cent.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 August 1926, Page 2
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