SOUTHERN HAWKE'S BAY STATISTIC

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 14

SOUTHERN HAWKE'S BAY STATISTIC

INTERESTING RETURNS. RAILWAY'FIGURES. .In glancing ov<?r last year's. railway returns ope notices that'- Dannovirke employs.'as : many hands'- as' Hastings, namely,' .16 (Wbodyillc,, 25, ; .is .hot included, in .'this .category).; then comes. Waipukurau '• with ••11,- '• Waipawa; ■5, Makotuku, OrmOndvillo and Takapau three each, and Ocane lwo. Dannevirke led in traffic expenditure with £2941 15s. 7d.; Waipukurau,'£l-710 7s. 9d.; Waipawa, £877 Bs. 2d.; Takapau, £359 2s. Bd.; Ormondville, £489 12s. 9d.; Makotuku, £440 10s. 7d.; Otane, £396 6s. 6d. PASSENGERS AND STOCK. Dannevirke booked up tile biggest number of passengers from amongst tho stations between Hastings and Woodville, the number being 38,440; Waipukurau, 27,408; Waipawa, 16,754; Ormondville, 9009; Takapau, 8078; Otane, 7406; Makotuku, 6697, In the railing of. sheep, tho list is topped by Waipukurau, with 97,484; Dannevirke, 80,757; Takapau, 52,972; Waipawa, 48,713; Otane, 48,382. WOOL. Dannevirke also railed tho greatest number of bales of wool, 7535; Waipukurau,- 6220; Waipawa, 5158; Otane, 4084; Takapau, 3429; Ormondville, 1405; Makotuku, 1057. TIMBER. 'Makotuku is apparently now tho biggest timber distributing railway centre between Wellington and l Napier. Last year this place railed 4,67(J,60U superficial feet of timber; Dannevirke, 2,464,700 feet; Waipawa, 1,479,000 feet; Ormondville, 601,300 feet; Takapau, 221,700 feet; Waipukurau, 181,700 feot; Otane, 20,200 feet. Dannevirke, howevi-r, is tho greatest firewood centre so far, having railed last year 1117 trucKs. linfact, the.town is the greatest railway firewood distributing centre in the North Island.

POPULATION. BOROUGHS, COUNTIES AND TOWN DISTRICTS. Capital values. Boroughs. £ Danuevirko 4,000 694,0-13 Waipawa 1,250 219,109 Counties. AVaipawa 4,400 2,199,-120 Danuevirko 5,300 2,013,717 Weber ....... GOO. 482,094 Pat-angata- 2,000 - 3,342,710 Waipukurau ; 1,670 473,33!) AVoodville ~ ; 2,600 1,071,523 • Towns. Waipukurau ■ 900 200,639 Orinondvillo 500 Porangahau ' 454 ■Takapau 400 .. Makotuku 300 Matamau:. 300 Mangatera 290 Norsewood 400 Otano 300 ROAD DISTRICTS. Following are the populations of each of ltho road districts: —Oero, 310; Patangata, 270; Tamamu, -230; Wallinford." 220; Wanst-ead, 150. Tlie Maori population of tho counties is as follows: —Waipawa, 468;' l'ata"ligata, 140; Akitio, 43. LIVE STOCK. Name. Horsc-s. Cattle. Sheep. . 'Waipawa' . ...... 3,200 16,800 390,000 Waipukurau .. . 750' 3,650 SO,OOO Dannevirke .- 3,350 22,000 265,000 Woodvillo ...... .1,750 15,400 110,000 Patan'gata and . Weber 3,500 39,946 .800,000 ' Tho above figures arc estimates based upon the official returns., :'h tho foregoing are Danncvirke's. . dairy cattle supply 7000, Waipawa 1750,: Waipukurau. 400, : TYoodvillo; 5000, and: Pa-, t'angata and.Weber, 1400. : The Dannevirke anfl Woodvillo counties each numbered'somo 2500 pigs.-. .' ' ■ "