PEOPLING THE EMPIRE
MENACE OF VACANCY QUESTIONS FOR SCIENTISTS (Klee. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Received .September 11. 2 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 10. Speaking at the Salvation Army citadel at Leicester, Commissioner Lamb asked what scientists were doing with the resources of the Empire, in view of the rich tracts awaiting development, whose vacancy menaced the Empire’s stability and tempted other overcrowded nations. Could the British Association say how we could build the Empire, when there were more men than women in Queensland, which had room for 100.000, and while Britain was maintaining millions of idle able-bodied men at. home. Had wisdom any place in the British Association?
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18190, 11 September 1933, Page 9
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108PEOPLING THE EMPIRE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18190, 11 September 1933, Page 9
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