FEWER SCOTS
„ 'The first results of this year's census afe -significant. Scotland's population is smaller than it was 10 years ago. The decrease, is slight. In 1921 there were '4,382,497 Scots, in 1953. there arc still 4,842,554. This drop of 79,943 is only .8 per cent, but it is without precedent that 'there should be "anv decrease. Ever since the taking of the first census more than a hundred years ago, the population of Scotland has shown an increase, though sometimes a small one, at eadi deceiinial reckoning.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 7
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88FEWER SCOTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 7
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