THE MAORI CENSUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13498, 27 May 1907, Page 6

THE MAORI CENSUS.

INCREASE IN THE NATIVE ' ' ' POPULATION. • The following are the results of the census of the Maori population of New Zealand, taken- in April, 1906: — Persons. ■• Males. Females. North Island 44.562 24,161 20,801 Middle. Island ... 2,256 1,210 1,046 Stewart Island ... 100 60 40 Chatham Islands— ■;• Maoris .... ..."... 172 89 s .'■ 83 Morioris .. ... : 30 18- ,12 Maoris wives living - ■. .-•-.. ; with European husbands,... ... ... 211 — . .211 Totals .;. ... 47,731 25.538 22,193 Besides 3938 half-castes included in the above table there were 2578 half-castes (males 1307, females 1271) living with and enumerated! as Europeans at the time of the census. The above total of 47,731 shows an increase on the population as enumerated . in 1901 of 4588 persons, "the total then being 43,143.

It was the intention of the proprietors of the Kelly Gang entertainment (states, the Melbourne Argus) to appear at Bcnalla and Wangaratta, centres of what is' spoken of at times as " the Kelly country," but representations were made to the Chief Secretary (Sir Alexander Peacock) that it would be undesirable to permit the entertainment in those places, and he has now given orders that it shall bo prohibited from exhibiting there. It is felt that a representation of the outlaws should not be exhibited in the district where tHey spent their lives, and in which some crimes represented in the entertainment were committed, v;