LEAGUE CONFERENCE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 204, 12 August 1927, Page 7

LEAGUE CONFERENCE.

TO MEET AT END OF MONTH. PROBLEM OF FEEDING WORLD’S BILLIONS. In 300 years the human race, at the present rate of increase, will number 8,000,000,000 people. That will be the aboslute maximhm that can be supported on the world’s surface, according to experts. To meet this situation, even before it is created, a world population conference will be held at Geneva, from August 31 to September 4, just preceding the League Assembly, at which the whole problem of finding employment for and feeding the earth’s ever increasing millions will be taken up. The conference will be attended by several score of the world’s leading sociologists and scientists. Where emigration and immigration was sidestepped by the recent Internatoinal Economic Conference, the World Population Conference will take it up on the grounds that it involves merely artificial barriers to the free movement of the world’s population and must be considered.

Amongst other delicate but vital problems to be considered will be those of fertility and sterility, the biology of population growth, differential birth rates, underpopulation, food supply, and over population.

The conference will be under the presidency of Sir Bernard Mallett of London. It is expected that almost every country in the world will be represented. Among the delegates already assured are:—Prof. H. P. Fairchild, Prof. E. M. East, Dr. C. C. Little, Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, Prof. Raymond Pearl and Dr. Whit ridge WilUams of the United States; Prof, J. S. Huxley, Prof. A. M. Carr-Saund-ers, Dr. F. A. E. Crew, Havelock Ellis, J. M. Keynes, Sir Humphrey Rolleston of England; Prof. Calmette, Lucien March and Prof. Andre Siegfried of France; Prof. Eugene Fischer, Prof. Goldschmidt and Prof. Grotahn of Germany; Dr. *W. Keilhau of .'orway, Sir George Knibbs of Australia; Dr. H. W. Mthorst of Holland; Prof, de Michelis of Italy; Prof. W. Rappard of Switzerland; Dr. M. A. Van Herwerden of Holland and Prof.. Silverstolpe of Sweden.