POPULATION OF NEW ZEALAND.
Subjoined is a short table showing the gross returns of population for the Colony, according to the Census taken in the beginning of the present year, giving the numbers for the various Provinces, together with those taken at the close of 1867. The increase for the three years over the whole Colony is 38,456. The figures for Southland are open to some slight correction, but it will only be a hundred or two either
way 1871. 1867. Nelson 22,506 23,814 decraase 38,333 increase 1,308 Canterbury ... 46,801 8,468 Otago (without 12,001 Southland) ... 60,578 48,577 Auckland 62,357 48,321 15,533 decrease 14,321 Westland 15,357 176 Marlborough... 5,026 4,371 increase 655 Taranaki 4,480 4,359 121 Wellington ... 23,982 21,950 2,039 Hawke’s Bay... 6,059 5,283 776 Southland (now 2,057 part of Otago) 10,000 7,943 Grand total ... 257,124 218,668 increase 38,456
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Marlborough Express, Volume VI, Issue 297, 17 June 1871, Page 7
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138POPULATION OF NEW ZEALAND. Marlborough Express, Volume VI, Issue 297, 17 June 1871, Page 7
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