TEN PER CENT INCREASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1926, Page 8

TEN PER CENT INCREASE.

NEW ZEALAND POPULATION

NOW TOTALS 1,407,165

NORTH'S BIG LEAD.

"Jy Telegraph.-Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day. - Preliminary census totals now ', available show that the teal popular!! of New Zealand, excluding Samoa ami' the Cook Islands, but including Alarm is 1,407,165, which is an increase the census of five years ago of 135 501. With Maoris excluded, the total s 1,344,384, which discloses thaf the wHu population has increased by 129,707 sine*

The males among the white population number 886,947, and the females 657 43* The Maoris number 32,730 malea'anj 30,051 females. ** and

The North Island cortinues to form ahead so far as the distribution of population is concerned, bavin* now 891,970 people, against the "Souti Island's 515.195. ia

In point of increase, too, the North shows a predominant position, for~it gain of 100,052 eince last census represents an increase of 12.64 per cent, witfU Souths increase of 35,449 represent! 7.39 per cent. Taking the Dominion-„ a whole, the percentage of increase ii 10.65 for the five-year period.

Further evidence of the manner m which the North is outstripping th South is disclosed by the fact that ahum! two-thirds of the Dominion's population —to be exact. 63.89 per cent—now lire, in the North Island, leaving 3611 w* cent in the South Island. V^