AUSTRALIA’S FALLING BIRTH-RATE
Reed. 7 p.m. Canberra, April 11
Unless the Australian birthrate improves, the nations population will drop from the present seven million to less than two rjTlion in the next hundred years, said Professor B. T. Mayes, professor of obstetrics, Sydney University, in an address at the Canberra University Colleg-e. He plotted the decline as gradual until 1960, and then precipitous, leaving two million Australians “a helpless handful, against hordes of avid Asiatics.” For replacement families of three were necessary, but it was depressing to find that economic remedies alone were not sufficient.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 85, 12 April 1946, Page 5
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