THE CENSUS.
The following table shows the POPULATION OF PROVINCIAL DISTRICTS.
299,614 409,658 Population oftbe Middle Island ... 156,917 „ „ Soath do ... 252,741
The above figures are exclusive of about 4,.AW) Chinese. The total population of the Colony* inclusive of its Celestial inhabitants (of wSo- m perhaps half a dozen are women), is put «i.iwn at (in round numbers) 414,000. The gre.'tf increase in the population of Westland, .liPd the correspondingly large decrease in tha£ °f *h e Nelson district, as compared with census of 1874, is accounted for by the fact £hat when the census was taken eight years . a g° *^ e Nelson province included a large sliofa °* Grey Valley, which now belongs wholly to Westland. Tne populations of the CHIEF TO\N* BS in tbe Colony are : Auckland 13,731 „ with suburbs, about... .••• ••• 30,000 Thames 12,316 Wellington , ... 19.037 „ with suburbs, about ... Nelson ~ • 6,000 Chmtchurcb. ... .... 13,408 „ with suburbs, over 26,000 Dunedin ... 2^940 „ with suburbß, nearly 50VL 00 The following table shows the population at the different census periods : !
It is interesting to compare the figures for some years previous to the census of 1864. In 1851, the total population was 25,707. In 1858 it had increased to 59,413, being an increase in numbers during seven years amoun ing to 32,706 persons, or 122.46 per cent. In 1861 the total population, exclusive of Maoiis, was 99,021, being an increase, as compared with 1858, of 39,608, or 39.99 per cent. The increase between 1874 and the present census is, as our table shows, 114,657, or nearly three times as much as between 1871 and 1874.
NORTH ISLAND. 1874. 1878 Increase. Auckland ... 67,451 81.627 14.176 Taranaki ... 5,465 8,888 3,423 Hawk es Bay 9.228 14.943 5,615 Wellington 29,790 SOUTH ISLAND. 51,459 21,669 1874. 1878. Increase Marlborough 6.145 8.035 1,890 Nelson 23,558 19.17U fiQ , n 21,880 j 6 ' 970 Westland ... 14.860 Canterbury 58.775 92,443 SS.e^ Otago 85,113 111.09J 25,977 Chathams... 129 172 43
Males. Femal's Total. | Per 1 In- centage , crease of In1 crease. Dec. 1864 106580 65578 172158 Over'61 73137 73.86 Over'64 46510 27.01 Over '67 G7725 17.25 Over '71 48121 16.82 Dec. 1867 131929 Feb. 1871 1503-6 86739 106037 218668 256393 Mar. 1874 170981 128533 299514 Mar. 1878 230198 183273 4U171 Over '74 114657 38.28
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Evening Star, Issue 4760, 4 June 1878, Page 3
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369THE CENSUS. Evening Star, Issue 4760, 4 June 1878, Page 3
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