Scotland Losing Its Young People
• ' Iieceived Tuesdav, 7 p.m. LONDON, April 6. Tlere will soon be more batli ehairs than perambulators in Scotland if the present population trends coutinued, said Mr. James C. Kyd, Kegistrar-Gen-eral for Scotland, at a meeting of the Town Planning Gongress in Edinbnrgh. Mr. Kyd recalled that between 1919"' and 1930, Scotland lost nearly one million people as a result , of e'migration and said that the nation was still moving towards a cbndition in which there would be too many old people and not
enougli young people. Tlie Dominion, s and colonies had shown they were as eager as ever to receive large numbers of people from Scotland. He would be the last person to suggest that emigration should be restricted but Iie thought Scotland should be so able to order her econoniy that her present population could be maintained a,t home. At present three- , quarters of the tot.al population of the country was eoneentrated in the central industriai belt which represented only one-fifth of ' the total area of the countryi He hoped that the extensive new hydro-electrifieation schemes now being developed would do something ta eorrect this lack of balance, ^ ^
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 April 1948, Page 6
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