BIRTHS AND PROSPERITY
Sir, —Mr Nordmeyer at Auckland associates a high birth rate with prosperity. It would be easier to prove the reverse. Taking the world as a whole, the poorest nations have the highest birth rate. Taking any city, the highest birth rate is in the poorest part of the city. Taking New Zealand statistics, the birth rate for 1945 is lower than the average for the preceding 50 years—what would Mr Nordmeyer prove from this?—X am, etc., M.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26693, 12 February 1948, Page 2
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