COMMONWEALTH POPULATION.
OVERWHELMING PREPONDER-
ANCE OF MALES
(Received Last Night, 9.35 o'clock.)
MELBOURNE, May 8
The Commonwealth Year Book shows that for every hundred females in Australia there are 311.46 males. The population averages 1.50 for every square mile. The average natural increase for the year was 15.31, and the birth-rate. 26.4 per 1000 of population. The marriage rate was 7.82, and the death rate 10.2. .
(The average birth-rate' of the Commonwealth in. the previous year was 26.40 ner 1000. In New Zealand it was 27.29 per. 1000.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10233, 9 May 1911, Page 5
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88COMMONWEALTH POPULATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10233, 9 May 1911, Page 5
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