EMPIRE'S POPULATION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 October 1921, Page 8

EMPIRE'S POPULATION

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*V CAHTjE— PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPVUIOHT I (Received Oct. 17, 10.45 a.m.) i LONDON, Oct. 16. I Tho Morning Post has begun a series' of articles dealing with tho resettlement of the Empire to secure a more eyon distribution of its white population as the greatest need of the ' present day. The initial article points out that such a scheme would cure unemployment, and do more to secure the world's peace than any international agreement. The Empire j statesmen should make this the keynote of policies. The British Islands I were seriously overcrowded, while the Dominions s wore seriously underpopulated yeiT With a fraction of the energy, resolution, and organisation which had saved the world's civilisation during 1914-18 they could effect, without hardship to the present, a redistribution of tho British whitb population. Imperial statesmen, with few exceptions, fumble with petty compromises and tiny palliatives when they talk of Empire settlement in terms of hundred* and thousands.