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NZ Truth, Issue 725, 10 May 1919, Page 1

MORE WORLDS THAN OURS. In Ills "Appendix, to the Census of the Commonwealth," G. H. Knibbs, the Commonwealth Statistician, takes a gloomy view of the year 23C9. He calculates that by that time, though every inch of soil- is. cultivated on this poor old planet, the 'population, by natural increase, will -have got s so multitudinous that they/li b,e starving, with no possible pr.ospect. of food. Fortunately for us, there's 450 years to go, and the progress of aviation might suggest before that time that there are other worlds to conquer. There'll be food raids on Mars, and some future Bucolic Bill may be raising Cain at the Greed of Rations Conferenoe tn Timbuctoo beoause if won't let Nop Zee. annex til© Pleiades. A secret is ; eonfl clan tiftl ihfqi'matlqn which' one woniah gives to another to keep for her. '