POPULATION IN HOSPITAL DISTRICT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1938, Page 8

POPULATION IN HOSPITAL DISTRICT.

LEAD COUNTIES BY t MARGIN OF 8134 Interring statistical information regardpg the population in the Palmerstem North hospital district is contained in the report of the committee of inquiry 1 intq the maternity services of the Jlfminion. The rural population of the dWtrict is 25,20" and its distribution and flie percentage of increase in the ten-year period 1920-1930 is as follows in the various counties:—

Increase County Population 1920-1930 Per cent. Kiwitea 2442 2.52 Pohangina .. .. 1350 2.97' Oroua 3872 5.42 Manawatu .. .. 4905 1.83 Kairanga 5358 18.95 Horowhcnua .. 7278 ,7.40 Particulars of town population are as follows: — Increase Town Population 1920-1930 Per cent. Palmerston N. .. 22,202 23.37 Feilding 4,550 0.73 Foxton .1,005 B.Bl* Levin 2,058 8.22 Otaki 1,744 12.52 * Decrease.

While Foxton among the towns lias actually shown a decrease during the period under review, Palmerston North has added to its numbers by almost a quarter and Otaki by 12.52 per cent., the total urban population being 33,759, which is 8134 greater than the combined figures for the counties.

Of the counties Kairanga has made by far the greatest strides in populatioc showing an increase of 18.90 per cent as against 7.4(1 in Horowhenua, the next largest. Apart from the case of Fox ton the gain in the towns is in every instance greater than that in the counties.