CENSUS RETURNS.
A return issued by the Registrar-General gives the population of each provincial district, with numerical and centesimal increase, since March, 1901. Wellington stands first for the rate of progress, with an increase of 27.12 per cent, in five years and one month. Auckland comes next, with 20.42 per cent., and Hawke’s Bay third, with 18.39 per cent. The details arc as follow:- - «• c . A .3 o Province. « a £ S 53 ft> O 2 *4 2 l--3 § « g Auckland ._ 175,938 211,856 55,918 20.42 Taranaki ... 37,855 45,404 5,549 14.66 Hawke’s Bay 35,424 41,938 6,514 18.58 Wellington ... 141,354 179,693 58,339 27.12 Marlborough 13,326 14,356 1,030 7.73 Nelson 57,915 41,768 5,853 10.16 Westland ... 14,506 15,427 921 6.35 Canterbury ™ 143,1)41 159,061 16,010 11.19 Otago 173,145 180,944 7,799 4.50 Out of a total of 2,365 half-castes in April, 1906, the provincial district of Auckland had 1J555, Wellington 229, and Otago 248. Out. of a total of 2,493 Chinese, Otago had 808. Wellington 657, Westland 309, Auckland 261. Nelson 197, and Canterbury 117.
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Evening Star, Issue 12871, 21 July 1906, Page 5
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168CENSUS RETURNS. Evening Star, Issue 12871, 21 July 1906, Page 5
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