NEW ZEALAND LEADS
RACE AGAINST DEATH BABIES' HERITAGE LONDON, April 5. "My highbrow friends complain that the Dominions have produced little great art or literature," writes J. B. S. 11aIdane. Reader in Biochemistry at Cambridge University, in "Points of View," published by George Allen and I'nwin. "I am not aware of that. At least they have done something unique. Before the war the average expectation of life of a baby bom in New Zealand was 60 years, in Australia 57, Denmark 56. England also ran.
'•Other countries have since largely caught up, but N'i'W Zealand and Australia still lead. lam proud lo belong to an empire which won first and second places in the great race against dcntli."
Ilnhlsiiie adds that, whether as the result nf bustle, or prohibition, or the spread of cults such as Christian Science and osteopath, the United Stales will presently be heading for death and not life.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17237, 17 April 1930, Page 7
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