GERMAN POPULATION
BABY BONUS SCHEME. SUCCESS NOT APPARENT. LONDON, Jan. 22. The Nazis’ policy to increase population is not fulfilling expectations, states itihe Berlin correspondent of the Times. This in spite of the fact that in 1933. marriages, stimulated by the Government’s £5O loans, increased by 121,000 to 631,000 —a record except for the three years before the war. In the first six months of 1934 there were 335,000 marriages. Births in 1933 were 21,000 fewer than in 1932, but fop the iirrft six months of 1934 they totalled 577,000, an increase of 21.5 per cent., compared wiith the 1933 inc rease. However, statisticians remark that the increase was. mainly in first-borns, attributable to the marriage loans, but (there is no sign of the larger families movement among the older couples essential for the needed real increase in population. The cost of living for a workingclass family of live, which is officially encouraged, rose from 116.4 in January, 193;’., to 121.7 in September, 1934, taking 100 as a basis in 1913.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 29, 4 February 1935, Page 8
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