POPULATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
RECORD BIRTH-KATE. Received February 22, 10.3 a.m. SYDNEY, February 22. The population of the State at the end of last year was 1,605,032, an increase of 31,808/ thereof 26,458 was due to excess of births over deaths. This excess is the highest on record. The births numbered 42,543—a record—and the deaths 16,085, which, with the exception ot the year 1906, was the lowest on record. The marriages numbered 12,615 —equal to 7.94 per thousand of population, the hignest for 23 years, and three per cent, above the average of the last five years. There ara 215 males in the State to every 200 females.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3121, 23 February 1909, Page 5
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109POPULATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3121, 23 February 1909, Page 5
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