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DUE TO LOW BIRTH RATE. POSITION AT HOME. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright (Received Saturday, 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. The Minister of Labour has circularised the local education .authorities, stating that, as the result of the low birth-rate during the war, which will become apparent in 1933, it is computed that juveniles in employment are likely to fall from the present number of 2,175,000 to 1,756,000. The decline of IS per cent in six years must hinder the revival and development of trade. Alleviation would be possible by the transfer of selected juveniles to districts where there is a -shortage.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 December 1927, Page 5
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