AUSTRALIAN CITIES
The concentration of population in the Australian cities is evident from returns of the latest census. The total population of New South Wales is 2,096,393, of which the Sydney metropolitan area comprises 897,640, or nearly 43 per cent., with 524,972 in the provincial urban areas. The rural population is only 664,502, or 31 per cent. In 10 years Ihe population of Sydney has increased by 42.00 per cent, and that of the provincial towns by 24.47 per cent., while the increase in the rural population has been 13.11 per cent. Similar conditions exist in Victoria, where, of the total population of 1,530,114, no less than 765,846, or more than half, is resident in the Melbourne metropolitan areas, with only 187,516 distributed among the provincial tolvns. The rural population is 571,535, or 37 per eent. Melbourne has increased its population in 10 years by 30 per cent., against 4.28 per cent, in the provincial towns and 5.46 per eent. in tho country districts.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2311, 4 August 1921, Page 4
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164AUSTRALIAN CITIES Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2311, 4 August 1921, Page 4
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