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THE HONGKONG
Government Gazette.
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Published by Authority.
No. 24.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 11TH JUNE, 1881.
VOL. XXVII.
號四十二第 日五十月五年巳辛 日一十月六年一十八百八千一
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
HONGKONG.
STATEMENT OF HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR
SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G.,
ON THE CENSUS RETURNS AND THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY.
At the Meeting of the Legislative Council on Friday, the 3rd June, 1881, in laying the census returns on the table, His Excellency said:-
Gentlemen, you are aware that, under instructions
from Her Majesty's Government, the census was taken in this Colony on the 3rd of April last. The former census was taken at the end of 1876. It was submitted to Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY a few days before he left the Colony for Queensland, and it became my duty to make a brief report upon it. It is unusual, almost unprecedented, for the same Governor to have to make reports upon two successive censuses. A census is gene- rally taken every ten years, but it happens that only four years and four months have elapsed since the last census in this Colony. But apart altogether from what may be unusual in official procedure, I find, looking at the returns I am now about to put upon the table, that there is something unusual in the important facts they disclose. A comparison of the census of 1881 with the census of December 1876, shows an amount of real progress and substantial prosperi- ty in the short space of four years such as, I believe, can only be equalled in the Australian Colonies, and which is, perhaps, unprecedented in any of the Crown colonies.
In putting these census returns before you, and in moving, as I shall do at the end of ment, that they be printed, I desire to give every my state- Member of the Council an opportunity of making any remarks he may think fit upon them. They will enable the Council to answer three questions. They will enable you to decide how far the Colo- ny of Hongkong has really fulfilled the objects
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