DOMINION STATISTICS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3765, 11 May 1926, Page 69

DOMINION STATISTICS.

The Abstract of Statistics for April contains the following miscellaneous information : Vital statistics, 1925: Rates p*r 1000 of mean population—births. 21.17; deaths, 8.29; marriages, 7.85; infantile mortality, rate per 1000 births, 59.96. Live stock in the Dominion, j.j'2s: Horses, 326,850; cattle, 3.503,744; sheep, *4,547,955; pigs, 440,115. Agriculture-acreages, 1924-25: Wheat, 166,964; oats. 147,387; barley, 25,138: ryegrass, 66,764; cocksfoot, 12,258; potatoes, 23,092. Yields total and per acre—W’heat, 5,447,758 bushels (32.62); oats, 5,707,174 bushels *38.72); barley, 798,128 bushels 31 75); ryegrass, 30,351,0721 b (452.23,; cocks, foot, 1,852,7641 b 1150.37); potatoes, 122,184 ns ~.27). Savings banks other than Post Office, year ended March 31,1925 : Number of depositors and amount to their credit at end of period, 124,731 —5,740,132; total deposits during year, £4.823,839: tctal with drawals, £4-526.652. Taxation by general Government, year ended March 31, 1925: Customs revenue (including tyre tax), £7,689,192; beer duty, £650.384; land tax. £1.335,^01; income tax, £3,386.052; death duties. £1.520,749; other, £1.967,981; total, £16,549,609, or £l2 -3s 5d per head of population including Maoris. Taxation by local governing bodies, vear ended March 31. 1925: ates £4.688,884 ; licenses, etc., £344.248; total, £5,013,132. Indebtedness of general Government as at March 31, 1925: Gross. £227.814,647, or £165 2s lid per head of population, including Maoris; net. £214,287.128, £155 6s 9d per head. Indebtedness of local govern in bodies, March 31, 1925: On debentures ami stockgross £45,720,794; net, £40.770,527.. On loans from State Advances Office—gross, £6,029.965; net, £5,360.074. On loans from Treasury 'inscribed debt,)—gross £2,272,598; estimated net indebtedness (actually computed!. £1,r8,552. Valuation of land and improvements, April 1, 1925: Capital value (land and improvements)—North Island, £390,335,248; South Inland. £197,014.327; counties, £344,043,853; boroughs. £235.347,446; and independent town districts. £7,958.276 ; t I, £587.349,575. Unimproved value of land (included in above)—North Island, £219.295,413: South Island. £120.014.847; counties. £231,614.794: boroughs, £104,2b7, 886; and independent i own districts, £3,427,580; total, £339.310.260. Divorce, 1925: Petitions filed 723; decrees absolute, 612; decrees nisi, 605. Bankruptcy. I9?5: Number of bankruptcies, 653; liabilities, £535,320; assets, £235.377; amount secured to creditors (not included in liabilities or assets shown), £590,274. Civil cnees tried in Magistrate’s Courts: Year 1925, 48,439; amount recovered, £666,721. Summary convictions in Magistrate’s Courts: Year 1925, 44,017. Articles posted and deJivered, year 1525 : Letters and letter-cards, 272,311,925; postcards 7,273,802; books and pattern-packets, 98,690,911; parcels, 7,023,501 ; newspapers* 41.602,497; post offices open, 2071. Telegrams transmitted, year ended March 31. 1925: 15,471,950. Telegraphic and telephonic wire at March 3t, 1925: Telegraphic, 56,415 miles; telephonic, 331,453 miles. Bank rate of discount (best mercantile paper of a currency not exceeding three months), March, 1926, 61 per cent. Overdraft. interest rate (charged on best accounts). March. 1926 61 per cent. Roads in Dominion (formed to not less than dray-width) as at March 31, 1925: Paved or surfaced, 29*325? miles: not r-nved or surfaced. 16,871 miles; total, 46.1961 miles. Bridges (over 25ft), number 4114 j total length. 413.842 ft.