342
4973
of
With the Blue Books
1882 and 1883 respectively,
viz.
Gov
1497983
in my despatches of July 18, 1883, and of July 16, 1884, I laid _ 14298 %= before Your Lordship full reports of the present condition of this Colony. Those Reports have already -been published in the Parliamentary Papers, showing the state of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions.
3.
In
my despatch of
the 26th June 1884, I mentioned
the steps which I had taken
with the view of causing
of causing the
annual
1305210
anual statisties to be prepared
in
future at an earlier period
of the year
than has hitherto
bren customary.
on a
ets I observed.
former occasion, the late 13054 period at which the "Blue Books"
have generally been forwarded from most Colonics often deprives those Statistical Returns of most of their practical value, and __ reduces what ought to be contemporary history to the
level
of (in the fine phrase of Lord Plunket), an old Almanack?.
4.