AUSTRALIA PASSES SIX MILLION MARK.
. SOME INSTRUCTIVE FIGURES (Received Tuesday 1 a.m) SYDNEY, Jan. 3. An official report shows that the population of the Commonwealth at 30<h September last totalled’ 6.076 432, where of 3,104,821 were males and 2.971.611 females. In Tasmania and Victoria the females predominated. The increase for the year was 118 512. New South Wales increased by 26,571, Queensland by 21,860, South Australia by 15,807. The other States showed small increases. Since the 1921 census Australia’s population has Increased 640,698. whereof 70 per cent wore the excess of births over deaths, and 30 per cent the excess of arrivals over departures. The increase represents an average rale of slightly above 2 per cent per annum.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 January 1927, Page 8
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