ITALIAN BIRTH-RATE
Cabinet Measures To Increase It By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rome, April 16. Cabinet has adopted a series of measures designed to increase the birth-rate. The most important provides that a loan ranging from £ll to £33 shall be available to couples under 26 years of age who wish to marry. Repayment will begin a year after the wedding, but if a child Is born in the meantime the total debt will be reduced by 10 per cent., wit?, successive reductions of 10 per cent, for each baby. The loan will be wiped out if 10 babies are born in 10 years. Other measures include tax remissions and salary increases for fathers of large families.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 173, 19 April 1937, Page 6
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