DUNEDIN'S POPULATION.
[Special to the Star.]
CHRISTCHURCH, August 3.
Good friends in Dunedin (says the 'Lyttelton Times') have apparently satisfied themselves that the census returns, which they were denouncing vigorously a few weeks ago, have done no injustice to their beautiful City. The slow increase in its [Xipulataon, which they were first inclined o attribute to carelessness of the enumera■>rs, they are now putting down to collapse f the dredging boom and other causes be- ■ >nd the reach of the RegistraT-General, and .'•iat officer's figures are certainly startling ■nough to excuse the early exclamations of Jisbelief. Investigations just concluded have shown that th© returns were correct, and hat the result ought to have been expected. After quoting from Mr J. T. Paul's renarks, the paper concludes: "A good deal >f this might be made to apply to Christ•hurch, or, for the matter of that, to any 3ther city in the colony; but Dunedin apiwars to hav© been particularly reluctant to take the moulding of its fortunes into its !<wn hands. If the .unpleasant disclosures of the census should stimulate it to renewed efforts along the lines suggested by Mr Paul, the conclusion of the next quinquennium will find it with a muoh more satisfactory addition to its population."
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Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 8
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208DUNEDIN'S POPULATION. Evening Star, Issue 12882, 3 August 1906, Page 8
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