Census Returns
- ■•■-■ •:-„ "^ : — ♦- ; 1 I 41^- [tJOTEEP PBESB '{ ASBOOUITLON. ] -.. . .; . >..'. WBtfciiroToir, December 10. • " The;census returns just pablished show tKat'-'there, are 298 public libraries, f/;i mecbames' institptesl and other literary /arid scientific institutions in New Zealand, ySlhich have 14*489 members, and possess •vj 1^330,770 Volumes and books. Auckland possesses .71,. Canterbury 66, and Otago ?3 of, these institutions. There are 1197 , -. churches and chapels in. the colony — an ■ £ iricreas&pl 134 'since, 1886. The school- ■■'""'"'. houses prised for .worship number 241, showing a : decrease of 49 ; the dwellings of public, buildings used for that purpose are- 161; an increase of 15 ; these various edifices- have accommodation for 278,114 persons, and are actually attended by 177 ,05§.' At last cen.sfls. the figures were gjs-l{U.anc[ 164,038, The Presbyterians Mye the greatest number of church goers 40,785. ; Church of England, . 3J;252'; Apinan 'Catholics, 30,525; and J^esleyan,V 27^106. The Army claim ' ' ' J4^4s;'j;~Two : smaller ' denominations are Quaker^ 40 i and Christian Disciples, 30. There are 450 Jews, 3803 of no denominaj ti6n,'iand, 2Qo', Freethinkers. Auckland has a^'.clitiches' and chapels, Canterbury 256, an^^tla^o^f^
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 72, 15 December 1891, Page 3
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173Census Returns Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 72, 15 December 1891, Page 3
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