FIVE YEARS' PROGRESS.
Under this suggestive heading, the Registrar-General has been issuing periodically the results of the late census. We have received the figures relating to Auckland Provincial District, and we think a careful perusal of these returns will bring an assurance that, despite the ebb and flow of good and bad times, the flood of prosperity is steadily advancing. In population we have gained 20,405, of whom no less than 14,000 have become located in rural or mining districts —a very gratifying fact. The evidence of the labours of our country population is furnished in extending lands under cultivation, and in multiplying flocks and herds. An increase of 341,087 acres in lands occupied and cultivated, upon the total of 1,165,441 acres returned in 1891, is a measure of growth as rapid as the most sanguine among us could have counted upon. And so also with respect to stock. The settlers own 15,267 more horses ; 83,754 more cattle, aad 277,580 more sheep than they did five years ago. When we consider the comparative smallness of the population/153,564 souls, including those resident in boroughs, the magnitude of the agricultural and pastoral areas, and the number'of stock, will impress statisticians who occupy themselves with the study of national sources of wealth.
Auckland city and suburbs have grown too, thus firmly based on the foundation ef extendiagsetllementupon the land. The Registrar-General sets down the population at 57,616, which I places Auckland well ahead of all New Zealand cities. Its increase in five years was 6,329, excellent indeed, but yet 1,239 less than the growth of Wellington city and suburbs during the same period. But Auckland city still leads the capital of the colony by 15,858, the excess being more than twice as much as Wellington has grown in five years, and sufficient to populate a good-sized colonial town. - - Auckland, notwithstanding the gain which Wellington makes, from the direct steamers, is also the chief shipping port of New Zealand. The inward tonnage in 1896 was 267,983, an increase in five years 0(82,539, and of Wellington 203,078, a gain of 61,188. Our outward tonnage was 215,501, an increase of 38,841, as against Wellington's 165.559 tons, and increase of 22,582. The following are the detailed returns :—
FIVE YEARS' PROGRESS.
Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 305, 23 December 1896, Page 5
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