DRIFT TO THE CITIES.
WAIR A R APA’S POPULATION. ' A statement that over the past ten years the Wairarapa. district had lost in population instead of gaining was made by the Mayor of Mastorton (Mr T. Jordan) when speaking at the opening of the Wairarapa Industrial Exhibition on Monday. Mr Jordan stated that ten years ago the population of the district from Woodville to Palliser was 33,500 and to-day it was 36,500, giving an actual population of eleven to the square mile. The natural increase of births over deaths in that period was 13. per thousand for the whole Dominion, and if Wairarapa had maintained its average it should have increased its population by 4,550, instead of 3,000. In other words, the district had lost 1,550 of its young people. That they had gone to the cities there was not the slightest doubt, said the speakei, and he urged that the people should adopt as their slogan: “Keep the youth in the district. Something was crying out for progress, but he asked whose was the hand to direct it?
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3727, 8 December 1927, Page 3
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179DRIFT TO THE CITIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3727, 8 December 1927, Page 3
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