NEW ZEALAND'S POPULATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 117, 19 May 1910, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND'S POPULATION.

ARBITRATION COURT. JUNE SITTINGS. The next session of the Arbitration Court will open in Wellington on Monday, 13bh June, at 10 a.m. There is only on& dispute at present filed — that of the cooks and waiter?. There is an appeal from 'the refusal to register a union by the Rnngitikei and Waimarino sr.wmill workers. Theie is a compensation claiiin — Whiley v. M'Lean and Son 1 ?. RUGBY FOOTBALL. / • i After a- spell of twe Saturdays, the Biigby matches will be continued on Saturday. Tho f-ame fixtures, »s set down for last week, are to bo played, ■which includes the games between Oriental and Petone, Poneke and Old Boys, at Athletic Park, and Melrose v. St. James, Hutt v Southern, at Lower Hutt. In the Oriental-Petone fixture a <iew player, in Pyle, late of Southland, w ill appear for the former club. According to accounts of hi/> play in the Banks' match on Monday last, he is an acquisition to Wellington football. It is expected that the team to play against the touring Australian team will not be selected until Saturday week. For Bronchial Cough* take Woods' Great Peppermint Oure, li 6d and 2» 6d.— Adtti

THE,FOUR CITIES. The estimated population of the four centres in JSevr Zealand on which the vital statistics foi April aTe based, is as f ollowfe . — Greater Auckland" ... 97,929 Greater Wellington ... 76,390 Greater Christchurch ... 78,605 - Greater Dunedin ... 62,584 As far as the cities proper are concerned, however, the statistics are as follow : — Auckland City 43,295 Wellington City 71,553 Chrißtchurch City ... 56,769 Dunedin City 38,857