MELBOURNE'S MILLION.
DUE IN SIX MONTHS' TIME. Within six months Melbourne's population will reach the million mark, according to the estimate of the Assistant Victorian Statistician. Just 20,000 more people are needed. Melbourne then will be the seventh city in the Empire, the 23rd in the world, and the second in Australia to reach the 1.000.000 mark, and it will have done it in the shortest time of all Sydney, vrhich reached 1.000,000 in 1924, took 136 years to attain the distinction. In estimating Melbourne's population, the Victorian Statist usually takes the 10-mile radius from the Elizabeth. Street Post Office. On that basis, Melbourne's population would reach one million in approximately one year and ten months; | but taking the radius of 15 miles from the Elizabeth Street Pest Office, Mel- ! bourne's population would reach one mil- j lion within six months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 9
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141MELBOURNE'S MILLION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19626, 3 May 1927, Page 9
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