N.Z.’s Population Needs
t Per , Press Association. Copyright. ] WELLINGTON, This Day. “I have come back with the feeling that sooner or later this country has got to establish itself with a solid, stable and numerous population,” said Mr Justice Smith, in an address at today’s luncheon of the Wellington Rotary Club. Mr Justice Smith, who spoke of the impressions he had received on his recent tour overseas, said it was his belief that New Zealand should populate itself with a stable and homogenous population as soon as it possibly could.
Mr Justice Smith said that he had made a practice overseas of endeavouring to estimate, by observation of the people in the streets, the physical standards and quality of the various nations. \
The outstanding example of physical fitness were the young people of the United States, and he would put the young men of Germany in second place.
His impression was that New Zealanders were not the finest physical specimens, although he thought they could be.
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Northern Advocate, 1 February 1939, Page 7
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