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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 2, 8 January 1903, Page 31

The returns of the population of the Australian Commonwealth on March 31 show that by ftir the largest proportion of the Commonwealth population is now homegrown Of the total number of inhabitants amounting to 3,771,715, rather more than 7? per cent, were born withm the Commonwealth, less than one per cent. cLiim New Zealand as their birth-place, rather more than 38 per cent, were born inihe United Kingdom or other British possessions than Austmlia or New Zealand, and those of foreign extraction, including, of course, all who were born in countries not under the Butish flag, are iat her less than four per cent. Mhe return shows that New South Wales has dr.iwn to her temtory nianv more of the nat no-born of \ictoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, than those States have attracted of Australians born m New Zealand It is perhaps contrary to what might haie been expected that, while there are only 6492 of those resident in New Zealand who cjaim New South Wales as their birthplace, theie are 10,580 persons living in New 1 South Wales who were born m New Zealand.