WANGANUI’S GROWTH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 150, 1 July 1946, Page 4

WANGANUI’S GROWTH

POPULATION INCREASE CITY DID NOT GET ITS SHARE The population history of Wanganui city shows that it has not got any large share of the North Island population increase, stated Dr. G. Jobberns, professor of geography, Canterbury University College, Christchurch, in the course of an address in Wanganui on Wanganui. The growth of the Wanganui urban area was illustrated by Dr. Jobberns with these figures:— Average

population was reached about 1931, the year book estimate being 27,850. “There is no point in my attempting to analyse the nature and cause of the pause in the upward trend of the Wanganui city population curve,” Dr. Jobberns stated. “I think it will surely be found to be connected ultimately with factors operating in the rural hinterland, my thesis being that you cannot think of vour town as something separate from the rural hinterland which is its economic basis. The two rise or fall together. They are both integral parts of the regional landscape.”

Annual Year. Population. Change. 1911 16,520 —- 1916 19,517 plus 4.02 1921 23,532 plus 4.11 1926 26,129 plus 2.21 1936 25,315 minus .31 It is likely that the peak of urban