Nearing the Million and Half

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 89, 6 July 1927, Page 8

Nearing the Million and Half

DOMINION’S POPULATION AUCKLAND'S LEAD (THE SUN'S Parliamentary WELLINGTON. The growth of population, S h that the Dominion is fast antim. the 1.500,000 mark, is shown Y Abstracts of Statistics, in -whA pointed out that the total pon--' of New Zealand at April, 1,437.980. inclusive of 64,234 mL.** With the inclusion of its dependencies, the Dominion hY round numbers, a popuianU 1.500.000. the precise figure v' 1.495.134. Since the census of April 20 the increase of population *i a Zealand proper has been 29,841 w to 2.12 per cent. Of this approximately 57 per cent, was""a* excess of births over deaths, per cent, to excess of arrivals - departures. The estimated populations of vincial districts (inclusive of jjLl at April 1, 1927, are as follows i

Auckland 494.34s Hawke s Bay .. .. 71,783 Taranaki Wellington 287,955 Total, North Island 9170T Marlborough 18.91] Nelson 51.3S1 Westland Canterbury 219.597 Otago HS.S87 Southland 66, SW Total, South Island 620,853 The estimated populations ot - ban areas (.inclusive of Maoris) same date, are: — Auckland 20* 400 Wellington 126,750 Christchurch .. .. 121,000 Dunedin 83.250 Hamilton 17,140 Gisborne 15X0 Napier 18.680 Hastings 15.050 New Plymouth .. .. 16,750 Wanganui 27,180 Palmerston North .. 20.5# Nelson 12,01ft Timaru 17X0 Invercargill 22,550