POPULATION.
NEW SOUTH WALES STATISTICS. BIRTHS A RECORD. HIGH MARRIAGE AND LOW DEATH FIGURES. (Di itmaswn— ritEss association-copyihgi!?) Sydney, February 22. The population of tho State at tho end of last yoar was 1,605,032, an increase of 31,808, whereof '26,458 wcio due to excess of births over deaths. This excess is tho highest on record. Tho bivtUa numbered .12,548—a record— and thb deaths 16,085, which, with the oxcoption of tho year 1906, was tho lowest on reoord. ■ The marriages numbered 12,015—equal to 7.M por thousand of population, tho highest for twenty-threo years, and threo per rent, abovo tho average of tho last fivo years. There aro 215 males in tho Stato to evory 200 females. ■ Tho proportion of marriages to every thousand of population in Now Zealand has boon higher than the New South AVnlos record proportion overy year since 1901, 'the fifrui'os heiug: 1902, 8.01; 1903, 8.23; 1004, 8.26; 1905, 8.28; 1906, 8.48) 1307, 8.01. - '
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 439, 23 February 1909, Page 7
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