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PROFESSOR AT SOIL CONGRESS. LEARNING TO LIVE IN TROPICS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. Washington, June 17. Professor Albrecht Penek, of Holland, addressing the International Congress on soil science, said the limit of population with all the eultivat&ble land tilled, was approximately 80,000,000,990. There were still vast arjas to be drawn into the service of man and also, in the greater part of the world, the productivity per unit could be very much increased. Many denied that the white man could exist in the moist, tropics for more than one generation or so. lie believed that the white man could acclimatise himself if he migrated, step by step, and very slowly, from high border regions into the moist plains.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1927, Page 9
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