AN INTERESTING RETURN
In July last Mr Lawry asked for a return showing the number of convictions for drunkenness" of persons born in New Zealand bnt of European descent, with tbe total number of convictions for the same offence during each year, 1887 to 1894-. The return is just to hand, aa followB:— Percentage Year. . Total. N.Z.-born N.Z.-boru to total. 1887 529$ 2GI 4 93 1888 6311 234 441 188!) 5079 276' . 543 18H0 5G77 337 5'94 IS9I 5118 3:iS fi'fO 3892 5055 358 7'OS 1593 5018 396 7 84 1894 4465 421 943 The figures for 1894 are approximate only. The number of New Zealand-born persons in gaol on the 30th June lsst w»s 135 out of a total of 565 prisoners, or 24'00 per cent. At the census of 1891, out of the total population of the colony ever 15 jears of age, 33'89 per cent, were New Zealand-born.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10621, 17 March 1896, Page 6
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151AN INTERESTING RETURN Otago Daily Times, Issue 10621, 17 March 1896, Page 6
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