DISTRIBUTION OF PEOPLE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1932, Page 9

DISTRIBUTION OF PEOPLE

MIGRATION WITHIN EMPIRE

DOMINIONS LAGGING BEHIND

SERVICES NOW PROVIDED

STILL FAR FROM THE LIMIT

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Rec. 10 p.m. London, Sept. 16, Continuing its crusade in favour of the stimulation of migration', the Morning Post says the full advantage of the Ottawa Conference decisions is realisable only by an expansion of the Dominion’s population.

“No statesman or economist will contest the assertion that neither Australia nor Canada is over-populated at, say, 30,000,000 each,” the paper says, “and yet according to the progress of the past century it will take Canada over a century and Australia over two centuries to reach those figures. New Zealand will take three or four centuries to attain even 10,000,000.

“There is naturally a limit to the economic increase of the population in proportion to the area and natural resources, and we have sometimes overstepped that limit, but the Dominions remain far behind it. All their equipment—railways, telegraphs and others—could more intensively be used by double or treble the population with comparatively little extra outlay; Their- factories could therefore raise the output if producing for larger home markets. It. therefore is in the common interest that the Dominions and the Mother Country should promote a flow of population from where it is excessive to .where it is deficient.”