A PROBLEM.
How doe 3 the increased population of Great Britain subsist ? Says a home paper: —Mr Chamberlain reminded the guests at the Trinity House on Wednesday that even in a decade of years the population of the United Kingdom (of Great Britain only, by the way, not of Ireland) had increased by nearly three and a half millions —more than the total population of our prosperous Australasian colonies, and that increase was coincident with the fact that during the same period we have been able to send half a million to the colonies to found communities all over the world, and at the same time we have sent out something like a million of inhabitants to add to the prosperity to the United States. Well, what have these three and a half millions of new comers been doing to get a living ? There has been no industrial expansion in any branch, manufacturing or agricultural. On the contrary, as we know, there has been a marked depression. Nearly every trade in the country professes to have been doing badly, and there has never been so small an increase in tbe amount of capital applied to domestic production. How then has this large new percentage of population found employment ? We wonder how the Prasident of the Board of Trade would answer this economic riddle ?
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3199, 29 September 1881, Page 4
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223A PROBLEM. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3199, 29 September 1881, Page 4
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