GREATER POPULATION
NEW ZEALAND’S IMPERATIVE NEED VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN INTENDED FOR 1944 Wellington, This Day. According to Mr A. Leigh Hunt, chairman of the Dominion Settlement Association, 1944 will mark the prosecution of a vigorous campaign by the Association which intends to bring home to the people its earnest conviction that the whole future course of New Zealand welfare is bound up with the question of greater population. The association will shortly appoint a highly-qualified full-time organiser-manager. “Of all post-war problems of the British Dominions, particularly Australia and New Zealand,” said Mr Hunt, “the imperative need for a greatly increased population stands out as the most important.” Throughout the last six months numerous public meetings had been convened and addressed by speakers provided by the association, the area extending from Invercargill to Dargaville, and had resulted in the establishment of committees of leading citizens enthusiastically pledged to organise their respective localities. It was intended to press for an early response to representations that had already been made to the Government on the matter.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 12 January 1944, Page 2
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172GREATER POPULATION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 12 January 1944, Page 2
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