Proposed Australasian Census.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 28 August 1886, Page 3

Proposed Australasian Census.

The ' Government of New South Wales has proposed that a census of Australasia should be taken in 1888, the centenary of the establishment of that colony. MrMcintyre (the "Argus" stages) took advantage of a motion to go into Committee" of Wayßand Means in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, to urge that Victoria should fall ip with thva, arrangement as a compliment to the mother colony, which, in despatching the Soudan contingent, haddone much tb advertise the colonies throughout the whole world. It was undesirable, be submittedj; to ( abstain,^ and thereby possibly offend Neffl'j South Wale's. Mr Munro r however^ pointed out that if the proposal were agreed to ifc should ti'ot, interfere, with the decennial .census which la to be taken pv ( er Jthe,Who!e ,of the dominions 1,891. j M^ <Gili.ies it Baid,,tiiat. he _bad not replied to.the'cpmmu'nication from Sydney, ap^ wmjid'jjoc do^Oi'ju'n^iU'tHe ; w m&i t ter^had b'e,en '.thVrpughl v, inquired.in.fQ, /'.fThe upclertreasurer'haa" advised that, the Census would Cosi'ie'l^OpO, $$ th'e 1 'Statist popos^r.rf >pg p ;; s «pi,As«W dbne to; meet -the wißhes, of New' South carry out tne projeot in Victoria. * tJ **