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The Registrar General published | appreciable reduction in that un-|centrate production fa mills which last month in London a preliminary | pleasant figure. In any case, it is are working on the most up-to-date statement with regard to the statis-surely obvious that there must be methods. Necessarily, however, ties of population, showing that in a point at which the growth of our that means that fewer people will" England and Wales the birth-rate population will have to cease, and I be required to produce the same for 1939 was the lowest rate ever | unless the old men will be sufficient- | cutput, and as in many cases there | yet recorded, namely, 10.3 per 1,000 ly accommodating to retire at an of "the" population. This figure has earlier age to another world, or given rise to a good many pessimis- unless we kill off the infants as tic commentaries, writes Mr. Harold the Chinese do, we cannot check Cor in 'n London paper. But if we the growth of our population ex- look at the facts behind the figure cept" by reducing the number of 16.3 we must recognise that the births. The fundamental question up prices. A similar movement is

is no chance of selling a bigger, out- put, mills in rationalised industries people discharged. Indeed, one of are being closed down and work-

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The problem of population under modern conditions very largely turns on the question of machinery, More than a century ago when steam-driven machinery was an en- tirely new feature in human life, we

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Fower But Bicher,

done. A declining birth rate docs conditions now prevailing, it is not being formed for the express pur- not necessarily mean, as most desirable, and indeed, finally neces-pose of limiting production and people seem to assume, a decrease sary, for our own country, and most in the population. ""Birth-rate" other countries as well, to look for means the number of children born | ward not to an increase but to an per 1,000 of the existing population. | actual reduction in population.”

Take, for example, the case of Australia. The birth rate in Aus. tralia fell from 38 per 1,000 in 1871 to roughly 28 in 1991. Did this mean that the Australian poulation was declining? On the contrary, in the year 1971 the actual number of births was 64,000, and in the year 1031 it was 138,000. Nor is the population of England and Wales declining. The latest official figures available are for the year 1928, and they show that in

that year we had 890,967 births and 360,399 deaths, so that in round figures our popula- tion in 1999 increased by 200,000 by excess of births over deaths. That hardly suggests that our race is tending to disappear. It is prob- able that the excess of births, over i deaths in 1929 will be some thou sands less, largely owing to the in- fluenza epidemic in the early part

Is it too much to say that machi- nery has outrun man In its ear- lier days the machine brought bene. fits to the ordinary werking "man. employment by producing more It enabled him to secure increased

easily and in larger quantities goods for which there was a large machine has market. The capacity of the HOW so greatly in- in England were the first to distressed that there is no longer a cover its value. We rapidly deve-sufficient market for all the goods

that machinery ca produce. loved machine production and built developments which have up thereby a gigantic manufactur-place in machine production seme- ing industry for the supply of the times even cauble one' man to do world's needy. Bug Machine", the last fitration Consequgil

what twenty were required for in wanted labour, especially, in those we have thrious problem, to early years, child labour, and our which no one yet seems to have population expanded enormously to world's power of production has given sufficient attention, that the meet the demand of the machines. outrun the world's capacity for con- sumption. That would not be a

The countries that used to buy our Conditions have now changed.

The taken

the demand for labour most in-

world were all sufficiently well off bad thing if the inhabitants of the goods have learnt how to make to be able to spend most of their these goods for themselves, in many the vast majority of mankind is time enjoying life, but so long as cases with paachinery that we aup-dependent for a bare livelihood on of the year, but we are still expand.ply to them, and the result is that hard daily work the diminution of ing our population at the rate of the markets for many of the goods volve misery for the masses of the on which our industrial prosperity previously depended have declined. It is true that we still remain prob ably the biggest exporting country in the world, but we can no longer boast of the quasi-monopoly we used to enjoy.

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Population and Unemployment.

population.

Surely the remedy needed is a reversal of the movement of popula tion which followed the introduc- tion of machinery. Poverty-strick ez millions make a poor market for an expanding output of manufac tured goods. Under present world conditions. a large propertion of the buman race lives in such a state of poverty that it provides no effective demand for the multitudinous things that machinery can produce. If on the other hand we had a would be lear competition in the smaller world population there we are to combine together manu- labour market, a higher standard facturing concerns which are now of living for machine minders, and competing with one another, im a better balance between the power of production and the capacity for prove their organisation, and con-consumption.

That does not seem much to grumble at, even from the point of view of those persons who imagine that 接 perpetually expanding population is a thing to be desired. This fact is now being generally But in view of the difficulties which recognised, and our industrial ad. our country has to face, an actual | visers are insisting that the only decline in our present population way, of escape is by rationalisa- would not be a thing to lament. tion." By that word is meant that For some years past we have had dearly a million and a-half people on the unemployed list, and there does not seem any chance of an

Diary

To-day.

(March 13.)

Lawn Tennis-Open Singles: C. A. L. Ramjahn v. M. E. La or J. Berron. Open Doubles: Kong Too Cheung and Ho Ka Lu. Ho Wai Hing and Chiu Chan Chiu.

of Coming Events,

Friday.

(March 14.)

Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 am.

Hockey: Club Recreio II., King's Park, 5 p.m.

Saturday, (March 16).

Golf Bagty Pool, Fanling. Fanling Hunt and Race Club: Hounds Meet Hunter's Arms, 4 Colony's Chess Championship, D. p.m. E. Carvalho Sir Henry Pollock, League Cricket:-Division II. Q. Hassan . H. W. Randall, C. M. Craigengower Sequeira G. Woudenberg

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Lawn Tennis Open Singles: Ho Friendly Cricket:-Division L.: Kowloon C.C. 1. H.K.C.C., Univer Rumjahn v. Cheng Chi Wing. aity The Army. Division II.

Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Stor-L.C. Recreio, Police v. D.B.S. age Co., Ltd, 24th Ordinary Year- ly Meeting, Pi · Lower Albert Read,

HK and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.; 43rd Ordinary Annual Meeting, Jardine Mathe son's Board Room, noon..

Reception to Mr. WL. Patten den Cathedral Hall, B. p.m.

Lecture on Architecture, H.E. 11 University, 5.15 p.m.

Rugby Football: Finals of Trian- gular Tournament, Club v. Navy, Club ground, Happy Valley. VR.C.-Annual Meeting, 6 p.m. League Football-Senior; Navy, University Lecture: Elemente. 8t. Joseph's, B. China, v. Club, University Lecture: Prof R of Television," Frof. M. H. Roffey, Police Recreio, Kowloon v. Som Robertson, M.A,Utopine, An-18.45 p.m.

ersets, Junior Navy Recreio, cient and Modern," Union Asserah-

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Eastern, S. China "A" v. Únie veraity, RAM.C... Kowloon, Chi ness Av, Chinese "B"

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