EMPIRE'S GREAT CITIES.
-•— —~— WHERE SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE . STAND. ■ • By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright SvittTKY, Juno 20.; Tuts population statistics show that nttho close of the year Sydney had a population ; of 550,600. while the figures for Melbourne stood at 538,000. Sydney and Melbourne thus stand in the • = position of eighth and ninth cities, re- ■ spectively, in the Empire. ; While Sydney occupies eighth place on the list of great cities of the .British Empire, Melbourne, according to the figures given in Whi Maker a Almanac, comes tenth on the - list, Madras being ninth. The population of the chief cities of the Empire is a* follows: — London ... ...' ... 4.721,217 Bombay ... 032,000 Calcutta ... 955,026 ' Glasgow '... ... ...' 825,625 . ' Liverpool ... ... ... 739,180 - Manchester ... 637,126 Birmingham 543,02?. Sydney ... ... ... 550.600 . Madras • ... . ... ... 542,518 ' Melbourne 538,000
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13782, 22 June 1908, Page 5
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122EMPIRE'S GREAT CITIES. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13782, 22 June 1908, Page 5
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