INCREASE OF POPULATION IN AUCKLAND.
Aucklanders, says a correspondent,arc in great feather over the result of the census, as showing the steady increase of population both in town and country. As the Public Works expenditure for the last three or four years has been largely curtailed the progress made has been attained without fictitious aids, but merely through fostering the industries of the Province. The statistical fact disclosed by the returns of Ashland possessing now a European and Native population of 120,000, is not likely to be lost sight of by the Auckland members when the details of the Representation Bill come to be disra*sed in the Assembly. In only one division of the Province are there signs of retrogression namely, the goldfields, where the mining in«
dustry is languishing; but the Counties in which the goldfields are situated show an increase. The moral deducible from the census returns is that prosperity founded on the artificial stimulus of borrowed money is evanescent, but that a prosperity which is the result of self reliant enterprise and development of the natural resources of the country, is enduring and permanent,
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2553, 27 May 1881, Page 2
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187INCREASE OF POPULATION IN AUCKLAND. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2553, 27 May 1881, Page 2
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