BIRTH-RATE AND FOOD
EXHAUSTION OF SUPPLIES. A. and N.Z. Cable. SYDNEY. May 26. The Commonwealth statistician, Mr. G. H. Knibbs, in a paper road before the Children's Welfare- Conference, said that it was impossible for the world's population to incrcaso for any appreciable length of time at the present rate without exhausting food supplies. If every cultivable aero of tho world were surface cultivated, the increase in the world's population were only one per cent, per annum, and tho present population were only 1,500,000,000, complete exhaustion of the food supply would bo reached in 450 years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16550, 28 May 1917, Page 6
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