The tendency toward a pronounced urban drift, which all countries experience in greater or lesser degree at certain stages in their development, has been clearly marked in New Zealand for a quarter of a century, states the Census Office in a review. In 1916 the urban population was 55.25 per cent, of the total and the rural was 44.75 per cent. At the 1926 census it was revealed that the rural population had fallen to 42.01 per cent., while the urban figure was 57.99 per cent. If forests, high mountain ranges, lakes and other areas not available for occupation are deducted from the area of New Zealand, the density of population is about 17.59 persons to the square mile.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4048, 13 October 1931, Page 54
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