OUR POPULATION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 20, 5 January 1928, Page 5

OUR POPULATION

SEARING MILLION AND HALF Wellington bhowb largest CITY COUNT. HASTINGS 15,050. The population of Now Imland, it* dependencies, and Mandated Territory of western Samoa virtually reached the one and a-half million mark on April 1 last. Exclusive of Maoris, the population of the Dominion proper was 1,3/3,746, comprised of 701,774 ma.es and 671,972 females. The Maoris numbered 64,234 —33,564 men and 30,670 women. Thus the total population of New Zealand proper was 1,437,980. On September 30 last this figure had risen to 1,440,415. On April 1, 1926. ft was 4,409,812. In the Cook Islands and Niue on April 1, 1927. there were 7143 men and 6945 women; 523 men and 510 women in Tokelau Islands (census 1926); and in Western Samoa 21,975 men and 20,053 women. The grand total amounted, therefore, to 1.495,129. URBAN AREAS. At the same date the estimated

population, including Maoris, in the urban areas was:— AllnlrlnnJ Oj'*) \AA

The estimated population of Wellington City was 101.400, and that of Auckland City 90,140. That of Christchurch City was 85,575. and of Dunedin City 65,480.

Auckland .. . 202,400 . 126,750 . 122,000 Wellington w Christchurch .• .. Punedin . 83,250 . 27,180 Wanganui .. .. Invercargill . 22.590 Palmerston North . 20.540 Napier .. 18,680 Timaru . 17,330 Hamilton . 17,140 New Plymouth .. . 16,790 Gisborne .. 15,370 Hastings . 15,050 Nelson . 12,010