N.Z. BIRTHRATE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 February 1935, Page 5

N.Z. BIRTHRATE

NEED FOR INCREASE,

ROTORUA, This Day. In a speech at tho annual meeting.of the New Zealand section of the Empire Press Union, the president (Mr Henry Horton) referred to the subject of Empire migration. He said that Great Britain was increasing her population almost too rapidly, while New Zealand had recorded the lowest increase for many years—about ten thousand whites mostly babies, being some 2335 less than the natural increase for a year. As soon as more of bur unemployed population "was absorbed this country should again consider what it could do to relieve the rapidly increasing surplus of the Motherland. Tho progress of the newspapers in Nerv Zealand today was very slow, circulation being almost stationary, and with the steadily declining birth-rate the outlqok was not oemforting. If editors could take more interest in tho children of the country and could educate married people" to the realisation that children were more satisfactory and worth while companions and brought more happiness into the home than either cats or firms, they might be doing something to assist the general welfare of the community.—(P.A.)