HAMILTON BECOMES A CITY

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24749, 14 December 1945, Page 9

HAMILTON BECOMES A CITY

RAPID GROWTH OF

POPULATION

HAMILTON, Dec. 13

|A. proclamation declaring Hamilton i 1 city was read by the Mayor (Mr H. ■j Caro) from the steps of the Repined Services’ Club to-day. Illus- ; ' J ting the remarkable growth ot jkttulton, the Mayor said that in 1904 value of rateable land in the was £157,422, and the value ® improvements £95,620. To-day the peable value amounted to £2,456,427, improvements to £4,519,432. .The swift growth of ,the town was Jdicated in population figures since start ot the century, as shown in i;® following list;—l9ol, 1253; 1911, 7 2 ! 1921, 11,441; 1931, 15,400; 1936. tI S0; 1945 ‘ 21.335. had been stated that the town’s growth was more reliably indicated by 4? e Urban population figures than by S Se r ?lating to the municipality it■ij *• said the Mayor. When certain T the areas ot neighbouring counties in Hamilton, the figure W j Probably exceed 25,000. The esti- “ Population of six closely settled ii, £ n the outskirts of Hamilton S : T:PairHekl, 1230; Te Rapa, 780; wi 1 e > 6 ‘20; Hillcrest, 550; Frankton ““tstde the city). 400; Rukura, 330. hn P re - ent - the Hamilton suburbs of i£,"^ es ,t and Fairfield are included in At, - county area, and Melville 41a? Rapa in the Waipa County. The Ab! ■ 9 ensUs figures showed' an in-tipis-e m the Waikato County from to 14,315. and in the Waipa f rom 1L730 t0 13 819 In the ifiSSf la . n County the increase was from T 35 to 10,648.