AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
N.S.W. VITAL STATISTICS.
By C«bl;.—Press Association—Copyright
Sydney, June 20. The Government Statistician's estimate of the population in New South Wales at December 1 last, was 1,868,200, an increase for the year of 0016. The excess of births over deaths was 33,275. The birth rate was 2,i below the average of the previous fiv> years. Illegitimate births averaged SI per thousand, and tlie death-rate 10 per cent, per fifty thousand, which is slightly above the decennial average. A SHEARING TROUBLES. _, ~ Sydney. June 20. I rouble is threatened in connection vv ' <* shearing. A big camp of shearers at Vv algett, one of the earliest districts, decided not to start unless 30s per hundred, £3 per week for shed hands and sevenpence per hundredweight were conceded. The men also decided that no crutching be done.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19160622.2.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1916, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
134AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 22 June 1916, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.