CENSUS OP 1864.
The whole of tho census returns have now been collected, and totala are being made up a 9 quickly as possible ; but several weeks must yet olapso befoie eveu a rough estimate of the population of the colony can be auived at. Mr.' B. B. Lusk is the enumerator for the Auckland province, and the whole of the household forms, the documents filled up by each householder, 'have to pass .through his hands before finally handed over to the .Registrar-General, with tabulated statements of ' tho J number of inhabitants in tho province, fie. In a' ( fe\y instances the first t instalments of the returns from other' provinces have been forwarded- to the enumerators; but these relate merely to, small sub-, districts ofvthe provinces, and cannob be lookod upon as afFolding&hy •' clue whatever as to, the increase or deoreasefin!tho A uumlier*Of settlers, ia.the entira>pro ; pviiicolp^ Onlitlxo -origination Ji-.ofs, thepcemna-takiiig ■upo&this podasionyHit ,w»s .prop.os'ed thfttievery-Jmeaiiß,
wofk^io 'as -to'iboienaHled? to submit an Approximate * statement of (tho^ reBult,qf the "cenSiiSjtb =,tlieuG erieral ' Assembly at ,its meeting in March ; hnty Parliamenji liaying been 1 oalled^together/^at-ftn^earlisr period, under tlie GxceiHioqatf,circiyno > Btance)j4t|Leiv^reyail- ( ■ ing.itlie ic]ea could' noli bb "carried, out hi intended..,,
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2324, 31 December 1864, Page 6
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197CENSUS OP 1864. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2324, 31 December 1864, Page 6
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