EMPIRE MIGRATION
FIVE MILLION TOO MANY PEOPLE IN BRITAIN.
(Received Jan. 9, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 7. Within twenty years the number of whites in tlm Dominions should be 25.000,000, declared Sir Chares Close, in his presidential address at the Geographical Society ._ The British commonwealth was not in a health? state so long as it had an overstrained and over-taxed heart. There were probably 5,000,000 too many people in Britain. the general standard of living in Britain was to decline, there, must bo a bold ancl efficient emigration policy. The average exodus of migrants since the war had been 120,000 yearly. This was insufficient. The Dominions ought to be able to absorb five per thousand of their population, equal to 100,000 migrants annually. This was in addition to the British quota to the United States of 34,000. Britain’s population was still increasing, but there was ample evidence that the rate of increase was declining. He estimated that the population would he stationary in 1949. — -A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10301, 10 January 1927, Page 5
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167EMPIRE MIGRATION Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10301, 10 January 1927, Page 5
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