PRIMATE ALARMED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 37, 20 June 1927, Page 5

PRIMATE ALARMED

S LOW BIRTHRATE A WARNING ISSUED. jPtHba Ab*o*:axxiox* w . AUCKLAND, June 161 Ihe Inmate (Archbishop Averill) was responsible, at t the annual meeting or .the Auckland branch of the liunket Society, for a. serious note of wanting i n reference to New Zealand s declining birth rate. . “l h ° distreßs higly low birth rate in New Zealand is not sufficiently realised,” declaml the Archbishop, who said he was seriously alarmed as (to the imsition. ‘tit this kind, thin g goes on,” he declared, ‘there can only bo one result—the relative”positions" of the peoples of the earth will be materially changed. It was essential that New Zealand and Australia should possess a considerably increased native population. This was essential for the preservation and well-being of both countries. (‘This is needed, and needed very much,” the Archbishop emphatically declared. “What is the use of talking of a white Australia or a white N(Av Zealand when the, birth rate is so alarmingly low.”