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Otago Witness, Issue 3806, 22 February 1927, Page 25

"When asked if, as an economist, he could suggest a way whereby New Zealand could continue to absorb immigrants without causing, unemployment (reports' Our special correspondent in Christchurch), Professor D. B. Copeland, a leading economist, stated that it was an economic fact that the capacity of a country to absorb population was limited. “The annual absorptive powers in a given period are limited,” he added. “In the past New Zealand has absorbed her natural growth and a certain, number of immigrants each year. -An investigation over a given period would show just how much additional population the Dominion ia able to absorb, and the immigration arrangements should be based upon . the difference between the natural increase and the absorptive capacity.”