POPULATION OF N.Z.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20540, 15 February 1935, Page 4

POPULATION OF N.Z.

Slight Increase Shown Last Year. INTERESTING FIGURES. The population of New Zealand, its dependencies and mandated territory at December 31, 1934. as estimated by the Government Statistician, was 1,627,059. That of New Zealand alone was 1,557,070. including Maoris, an increase of 11,145 over the total for 1933, which was 12.216 greater than that for 1932. The figures compiled by the Government Statistician and published in the current Gazette show that the population of New Zealand proper was made up of 793.547 males and 763,523 females. The population of Western Samoa totalled 52,946, of the Cook Islands, Niue, etc., 15,864, and of the Tokelau Islands 1179. The • population of New Zealand proper included 1,482,936 Europeans and 74,134 Maoris. The North Island claimed 1,005,702, of whom 70,938 .were Maoris, and the South Island 551,368, including 3196 Maoris. A comparison of various items in the population return at December 31, 1934, with the corresponding figures at the end of 1933, is as follows: 1934. 1933. Increase. Total population 1,557,070 1,545,925 11,145 Europeans . 1,482.936 1,473,444 &,492 Maoris .... 74,134 72,481 1,653 North Island 1,005,702 996,631 9,071 South Island 551,368 549,294 2,074