DECLINING BIRTH RATE
SEEKING A REMEDY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, December 30. ' A measure designed to check the decline in the birth rate was introduced in the Chamber of Deputies, providing that the State shall seize nine-tenths of the possessions of persons dying childless and give them to those with /amilies of more than three regardless of the • latter’s financial position. The persons possessing one child shall forfeit two-thirds of their estates, and those possessing two children shall forfeit one-third to families of three or more. The Bill provides that commercial, industrial, and agricultural enterprises so acquired shall not bo interfered with.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18751, 3 January 1923, Page 5
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