BIRTH RATE MUST BE RAISED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 42, 5 March 1937, Page 5

BIRTH RATE MUST BE RAISED

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Italy Plans Mariiage Loan and Family Wages

RAISE LIVING STANDARD

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(Received 5, 8.45 a.m.) ROME, March 4. A communique issued after a meeting of the Fascist Grand Council states that after listening to Signor Mussolini report on the birth xate, the Grand Council approved the following sevenpoint programme: — Preference is to be given fatfiers of large families in the matter of employment. A policy of family wages to be instituted, making incomes pipportionate to the burdens of families as a whole. Revision of present nieasures for encouraging large families so as to ensure a steady standard of living for such families. Institution of marriage loans, endowments and insurances for young workers. Establishment of a national association, members of which shall be fathera of large families. Revision of provincial communal boundaries in order to suppress communes where the aged and deelining population no longer needs the benafits of public institutions. Creation of a central organisation for the control and propagation of the Government 's policy for a higher birth rate. The Council solemnly recorded: "The birth rate problem, being a problem of life and its continuation, is really the problem of problems, for without life there is no youth, military power, economic expansion, or secure future for the Fatherland."