PLANNED MIGRATION.
EXPEDIENCY STRESSED. Per Press Association. HASTINGS, Aug. 29. Claiming that the problem population was by far the most vital and urgent question facing New Zealand at the present time, Mr L. R. Palmer, M.A., addressing a public meeting sponsored by the Hastings Rotary Club on behalf of the Dominion Settlement Association, streesed the seriousness of the fall in the birthrate and advocated the immediate inauguration of. a system of planned and adequately financed migration. Following his address at Hastings a branch of the Dominion Settlement Association was formed.
Mr Palmer also addressed Napier Rotarians to-day, and as a result steps are being taken to form a Napier branch of the association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 232, 30 August 1938, Page 9
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113PLANNED MIGRATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 232, 30 August 1938, Page 9
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