AN IMPERATIVE NEED

Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22790, 14 January 1944, Page 4

AN IMPERATIVE NEED

Increase In Population

(N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 12. According to Mr A. Leigh Hunt, chairman of the Dominion Settlement Association, during this year a vigorous campaign will be carried out by the association, which intends to bring home to the people its earnest conviction that the whole future course of New Zealand welfare is bound up with the question of greater population. The association will shortly appoint a highly qualified full-time organisermanager.

“Of all the post-war problems of the British dominions, particularly Australia and New Zealand,” said Mr Hunt, "the imperative need for greatlyincreased population stands out as the most important.” Throughout the last six months numerous public meetings have been convened and addressed by speakers provided by the association, the area extending from Invercagill to Dar»aville. Mr Hunt said that these had resulted in the establishment of committees of leading citizens pledged to organise their respective localities. It was intended to nress for an early response to the representations that had already been made to the Government on the matter.