NEW ZEALAND’S POPULATION.

Waikato Independent, Volume XII, Issue 1020, 3 June 1911, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND’S POPULATION.

FIN A L r RET URNS. The following are the final returns of population of the Dominion: North Island . 563,832 South Island 443,422 Stewart Island 356 Chatham Islands 197 Kermadecs 4 Total 1,007,811 Net increase 119,233 Some of the figures have as yet only been wired from outlying districts, but it is not expected that the posted records will affect the result. Maoris and Pacific Islanders are not included. The population of the North Island has increased by 87.100 since 1906, and that of the South Island by 32,082. It is understood that the Government has decided to take an electoral census of the Dominion early in July, in readiness for compilation of the rolls for the new electoral districts. A householders’ schedule will be used in the four chief cities, each occupier of a house being required to fi 1 ! the names of all adults residing therein. Adults already on the roll will remain, and adults not enrolled will be given registration claims, and on subsequent comparisons of schedules and rolls non-residents will be, removed from the rolls. In country electorates a house-to-house canvass will be made, as in 1905, for the purpose of enrolling electors and recording changes of address. It is not proposed to extend the house-to-house canvass to sparselysettled districts, but each postmaster will be instructed to see that enrolment is as complete as possible.