The Examiner, Published MONDAY WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY. JULY 19. THE COLONY’S PROGRESS.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXI, Issue 3770, 19 July 1905, Page 2

The Examiner, Published MONDAY WEDNESDAY, AND FRIDAY. WEDNESDAY. JULY 19. THE COLONY’S PROGRESS.

The Registrar-General has been good enough to send us a pamphlet giving the details of “ Fifty Years Progress.” It is very interesting to note the extent of growth shown. In 1855 there were fewer people in the whole colony than there are in the city i,f Wellington now, and there was only about one marriage a day all the colony through, though there was rather more than one funeral for each marriage. Now there are about two hundred weddings a day, so that there is a much better trade in presents, and cakes are commoner, but the funerals still maintain just about the same proportion of excess. The records of holdings of an acre and over go back for less than forty years, but th-y have multiplied by nearly six during that time, while lhe population has multiplied by three and a half. In the fifty years while the people have .multiplied by. twenty-two, the cultivated acres have done so by over a hundred and ten. Multi jlication has been the word, too, with regard to stock and produce. In regard to horses and cattle, there has been an uninterrupted increase year by year, but while sheep did so, too, for the first forty years, during the last ten they have gone down, and up and down again. In exports there have been fluctuations, too, as regards the different items, but the totals both of exports and imports have marched steadily on with hardly a fign of a check, shipping and accumulations tell the same tale, and as we look through the Jins of figures, we feel that we have good . reason lo be proud of our country’s past and hops ful of its future.