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EARTH NOT CROWDED CAN SUPPORT MILLIONS MOBE Received June 19, 5.5 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) NEW YORK, June 18. Professor Albrecht Penck of Holland, addressing the International Congress on Soil Science said the limit of the population with all cultivateable land tilled was approximately eight billions. There w’ere still vast areas 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. He believed that the white man could acclimatise himself if he migrated step by step, and very slowly from the high border regions into the mo't plain*-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19871, 20 June 1927, Page 7
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125PLENTY OF ROOM Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19871, 20 June 1927, Page 7
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