1 OCTOBER 1910, Page 2

A New Zealand correspondent sends us a copy of the

New Zealand Times containing a striking poem entitled " The White Peril." The writer, Mr. Edward Tregear, takes for his text three passages from the Labour Reports of 1908, 1909, and 1910. The first notes a fall in the birth-rate from 41 per 1,000 in 1876 to 27 per 1,000 in 1906, with a decline in the daily attendance at the Dunedin schools from 4,148 in 1887 to 2,882 in 1907; the second asserts that few children between five and fifteen years of age take the places of their .elders as vacancies occur ; and the third (1910) states that there are this year 1,258 fewer young people under twenty-one engaged in New Zealand industries than in the previous year.