THE CENSUS.
flic t'egi-drur General's Depirimeii! has now compil d a rough censrm of results for the whole colony. 1 hey show the European population in 1896 to be 703,008 ("exclusive or" the Chatham Islands the returns for which arc not to hand), as compared with 6*26.658 shown in tho 1891 censss and 578/18*2 in tho 1.886 census. The increase of population from the year ISB6 to 1891 was 4:8,186 persons, or 12 per cent. The population in 1896 is ma/c up as follows :—Countries 891510, horou.hs 307 505, islands 782 fexclusive of ihe Chitthams), shipping 3261. Ilia returns show that the incrc.se of the poun.lation iv the North Island has been greatly in excess of the increase iv the South island. The po:.t* atioit of the North Isl--.no. in 1891 was 281,405, nnd the census just taken shows tho for that Island to be 84-0 622, an increase at tbe i-'Ue : of 2.1 jer cent, in 1891 the population-, of li>e Aiul-He i*l«nd w-;« 844 711, nml this year the census shows the population nt present to be 362,127, an increase".at a rate of 5 per cent. The increase in the population of I!.-» North I-daiid bom the year 1886 to 1891 was 12 per ceol , and the increa.r in ibe population oi ihe \il.liib* Isl-un' tor tbe _„vie p«iiod wab 5 per cvii.t-
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2060, 9 June 1896, Page 2
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225THE CENSUS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2060, 9 June 1896, Page 2
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