SLUGGISH STORK.
SYDNEY, March 16. Of many political illusions, one of the most extraordinary is that the Commonwealth baby bonus and child endowment help to maintain -Australia’s birth rate. They were good political catch cries when they were introduced, and have no doubt been of very material assistance to not a few people,’ but they have not tended to fill the cradles. On the contrary, according to the statistician, the present birth rate of Australia is the lowest in its history. Some go so far as to assert that the well-meant legislation designed to fill the cradles has actually tended to empty them, since political largesse of this sort has to be paid for from production. That is the sugggestion at least of those who revel in economic science and are opposed io such legislation.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 68
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135SLUGGISH STORK. Otago Witness, Issue 3864, 3 April 1928, Page 68
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