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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 279, 23 November 1912, Page 3

The Rev. A. Don, the well-known Presbyterian missionary, referring to i the Chinese in New Zealand, states ! that the balance of population is now ! heavily in favor of the North Island. I At the census taken eighteen months i ago the figures were: South Island | 1133, North Island 1497. He says: . "I estimate them now as: South Is--1 land 1025, North Island 1450. These ; numbers will become more and more i disproportionate. Another import- | ant fact iB that the great majority of those in the south are over forty years of age, and of those in the north under that age. The numbers in the three centres are, approximately:— Dunedin 120, Wellington 400, Auckland 280." Mr Don speaks hopefully of the Chinese in Auckland, who at present hold their Christian meetings in the market gardeners' houses^ but who, he believes, will subscribe liberally for a building of their own.