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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6, 11 February 1909, Page 223

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« Our First Million Some time ago New Zoaland cast away the inchoate designation of a Colony and blossomed into a Dominion — with a big, big D. The change of designation represented a" considerable measure of progress achieved; it likewise stood for confidence in' the future, for faith in ourselves — for trust in God and time. To some it seemed rather grotesque that the title ' Dominion ' should be applied to a young country with less than a million inhabitants. But what nations have so profoundly influenced the world's history as those two small nations, Judea and Greece? And what country exercised a greater influence upon the learning and civilisation of Western Europe in the early middle ages than did Ireland when its population must have been very considerably short of a million? New Zealand has, however, now passed her million mark: her estimated population on the last day of December was 1,008,373. It marks a further mile-post in the road of national progress.