AMERICA
’'—— GROWTH’OF POPULATION; 8Y CABLE—PHESB ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT Reecived July 1, 10.15 fc.m.' . SYDNEY, July I. ; Lecturing at Sydney University, Prolessor Lichtenfjeyger, of Pennsylvania, declared' that the growth of the American population from 10,000,000 iir 1820 to 110,000,000 at present was almost purely genetic. He said the Immigration Commission of 1907 had found that 40:.per; cent, of those ..who had, up to that time, immigrated to America, had returned to tlie countries whence they came. , The percentage of ioreign-born people in the United States was 14, and this figure had not .varied much in past years. Professor Lichtehberger decribed the; United . States; as overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxon. —r Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 July 1924, Page 11
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107AMERICA Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 July 1924, Page 11
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