THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Tin-; Fiif.ni'ii I’loi’i.i;. “Despite her boumiug trade and lack of iiMomploynient. Franco -"'ems -| til unable I? Mil 'mount (he • 1 agna 1 nill. it liol decline, oi her unlive impillation. The official figures show that for the second quarter of 1921 the surplus of births over deaths was I i).000 less than In the same quarter ol ]J23. As a matter of fact, adding the two first quarters of this year together, the surplus for the two was only Jlio-i. I'or the purposes ol labour power I'ranee makes up to a great extent by attracting foreigners, ol whom about two millions are now living on her soil. \ cry few of (hem. however, take up I'reneh citi/.enshio ; partly because they do not want to incur for themselves or their children liability to French military service, and partly for other reasons. Italians. Spaniards, and Pules arc now the most numerous immigrants. Meanwhile the French birth-rate remains much the same a- the English: if is the high French deal li-rat? lh.it makes tin difference.” "Daily Chronicle.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1925, Page 2
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