POPULATION INCREASE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 8

POPULATION INCREASE

84.3 p.c. Rise In Halswell

Halswell county’s population lias increased by 84.3 per cent, since the 1958 census. according to a preliminary list of 1961 census results issued by the Government Statistician (Mr J. V. T. Baker). The population of Halswell is now 2864. In 1956 it was 1554. The counties of Westland and Oxford have both decreased in population. Westiland county now has a population of 4407, 130 fewer than in 1956, and the percentage difference is 2.9 per cent. Oxford county has lost 55 persons, a percentage difference of 3.4, and now has a population of 1582. In the borough of Hokitika the loss of population has been less. In the 1961 census the borough had a population of 3005, 27 fewer than in the 1956 census. The percentage difference is .9. licence: William Duncan Cross. £2. Exceeding 40 miles an hour with pillion passenger: Anthony Terence Doran, £3. Exceeding axle load on bridge: Ellesmere Transport Company. Ltd.. £B. Speed too great to stop in half clear road ahead: Donald Russell Foster. £5. No vehicle authority: Frews Motors, Ltd. (two charges). £3 and £4. No light on bicycle: Robert Herbert Greening. £2 (no tail light. 10s). Exceeding 35 miles an hour in heavy motor-vehicle: Douglas Francis Giasson, £4. Using motor vehicle without reasonable consideration: Raymond John Lilley. £5. Towing trailer without blue light: Ansley Archibald McCormick, £l. Unregistered vehicle: William Gibson Marshall. £5. Driving without due care: Owen Bruce Moore. £lO. Riding cycle more than two abreast: Melvyn Edward Mulligan. £2. Parking offences: Margery Moffat Swirt, £3; Julius Szalay. £2