GREATER POPULATION

Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22244, 13 January 1944, Page 2

GREATER POPULATION

PROBLEM FOR DOMINION VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN PLANNED (By Telegraph. —rress Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday According to Mr A. Leigh Hunt, chairman of the Dominion Settlement Association, 1944 will mark the prosecution of a vigorous campaign by the association, which intends to bring home to the people its earnest conviction that the whole future course of New Zealand’s welfare is bound up with the questions of a greater population. The association will shortly appoint a highly qualified full-time organ-iser-manager. “Of all the post-war problems of the British Dominions, particularly Australia and New Zealand,” said Mr Hunt, “the imperative need for a greatly increased 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 Invercargill to Dargaville, and they have resulted in the establishment of committees of leading citizens enthusiastically pledged to organise their respective localities. Mr Hunt added that it was intended to press for an early response to representations that had already been made to the Government on the matter. r