NEW ZEALAND'S POPULATION.
• . '* : ■'' :'V . ; . NEAEING TIIE MILLION. - . By June of this year, according to an estimate which the Kegistrar-Gimeral (Mr. E. J ': vori DadelszenJ ventured some 'months ago' the population of New Zealand should reach the million. : The additions for the first quar- . ; ter- of . this year show that, the estimate: is likely 'to > come true. The Dominion's estimated population at the end of March' was 997,058 .(529,431 males 'and 4(5,227' females) : The- figures ■ include the Maori -population of 47,731, . and . population of the. Ciook and other Islands, 12,340, as shown by the census nf 190 G. ' ■; -• '' " The; net increasol in the population of the Dominion during the first'quarter of the pre- ' Beht year - was 8103" (5020 males and 3083 females). .. '••The. total' increase for ; the quarter was 19,723—made up. as follows:— Arrivals: ... ... 12,906 " : Births ... ... ... ,' .... ... 6817 , •)-! The decreaso during the same period was 11,020, made up as follows: • Deaths ... ...' . ... ... ... 2267 ■ Departures . 9358 ;
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 192, 8 May 1908, Page 7
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152NEW ZEALAND'S POPULATION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 192, 8 May 1908, Page 7
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