DOMINION'S POPULATION.
STEADY INCREASE SHOWN. DISTRIBUTION OF MAORIS. (nv TELEGRAPH.—I'TtESS ASSOCIATION'.] WELLINGTON. Thursday. Tho estimated population of the Dominion, including dependencies and mandated territory, at September 30, 1928, totalled 1,515,267, of whom 774,236 were males and <741,031 females. The estimated Maori population accounted for 65.212, the Cook Islands, Niue, etc., for 14,352, and the mandated territory of Western Samoa for 43,169. Of the Maoris in New Zealand it is estimated 62,320 are in tho North Island and 2892 in I lie South Island.
The figures for September 30. 1927, showed i] total population of 1,507,967. New Zealand proper, including Maoris, accounted for 1,450.314 of this number, the Maoris totalling 64,603. Other items tn the grand total were Cook Islands, Nine etc., 14,178; Western Samoa, 42.642; Tokelau Islands, 1033.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20099, 9 November 1928, Page 14
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