INTERESTING STATISTICS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1717, 25 January 1905, Page 48

INTERESTING STATISTICS

Some interesting statistics showing the progress of the city of Wellington and the surrounding local districts during the past five years, and the increase of material prosperity, were quoted by the Premier in his speech on Friday night at the banquet at Ohariu. In the city of Wellington the population. increased from 44,787 on March 31st, 1899, to 54,500 on March 31st, 1904. It must be explained, however, that the Melrose borough became part of the city before 1904. The total value of land and improvements is £12,854,072, as against £8,366,514 in 1898, an increase of £4,517^558. The population of the Lower Hutt borough shows an increase for the five years of 1211. The unimproved value of land in that borough increased by £452,488, and the value of improvements by £104,453. The total value is now £826,762, as against £269,821. In the borough of Petone, the population has grown by 1850. The unimproved value of land has increased from £140,593 in 1898 to £255,916 in 1904, and the value of improvements from £142,692 to £243,938; so that the total value show's an increase of £216,569. There are now 1500 persons in the borough of Onslow, as against 1450 in 1899. The unimproved value of land is greater by £40,561 than in 1898, and the value of improvements has increased by £44,815 —from £95,685 to £140,500. Karori has 440 more residents than in 1899. The unimproved value of land has increased from £110,003 in 1898 to £211,413, and the value of improvements from £51,883 to £133,308. The total value in Karori borough has gone up by r £182,835. The total area of land, under cultivation in the Hutt county has increased from 164,500 acres in 1899 to 166,816 in 1904, an increase of 2316 acres. The area of land in sown grasses has increased by 2097 aores. There are 926 niore horses and 1814 more cattle in the county, whilst the number of sheep has decreased by 27,000. The capital value of land and improvements in the Hutt county has increased by £684,546. The increase in the Horolciwi I'iding amounts to £41,721, and in the Johnsonville town district to £30,387.