A Vital Question.
MR SERDON ON THE BIRTHJUTE. LAND OF PROMISE, (Per Press Association.) RPNEDIN, March 11. The Premier ut the meeting at Lawrence lust night had a few words to say relative to the New South Wales Commission's reference to tho New Zealand birth rate. In 1003, he said, the excess of births over deaths m this colony was 13,301, the largest number since 1885, which went to show that the Commission's roprouch against New Zealand was to some extent removed. Mr Soddon has his own remedy for tho evil. Above nil things, he says, make this country prosperous and give opportunities to tho people, and at onco an increase will |, e noticed in tho marriage ami birth rate. The sovereign remedy is to put the people on tho land. It Is wonderful the number of children the fanners. Marriage is not a failure in the countrv districts of New Zealand. **
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 58, 12 March 1904, Page 2
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152A Vital Question. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 58, 12 March 1904, Page 2
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