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TABLES

No. PAGE 1. Total European Population from 1800 to 1850 .. .. . . .. .. 1 2. Estimate of Distribution of European Population at 1842 and 1851 respectively .. 2 3. Total Population and Intercensal increases from 1851 to the Present Time .. .. 2 4. Percentage Increase in Quinquennial Periods from 1901-06 to 1931-36 of Population in New Zealand and certain Overseas Countries .. .. .. .. .. 3 5. Birth-rates per 1,000 of Population from 1919 to 1945 . . .. .. .. 4 6. Birth-rates per 1,000 of Population from 1871-75 to 1941-45 .. .. .. 4 7. Number of Females per 1,000 Males in New Zealand from 1851 to 1946 (excluding Maoris) 5 8. Percentage of Total Population (excluding Maoris), in Age-groups, from 1881 to 1945 .. 5 9. Percentage Distribution of Female Population of New Zealand from 1881 to 1945 .. 6 10. Legitimate and Total Births from 1878 to 1945 .. .. .. .. .. 6 11. Number of Marriages per 1,000 of Mean Population from 1888 to 1945 .. .. 7 12. Number of Marriages per 1,000 of Mean Population from 1929 to 1945 .. .. 7 13. Duration of Marriages in Years before the Birth of the First Child, from 1914 to 1943 . . 8 14. Age of the Mother at the Time of the First Birth for various Years from 1914 to 1943 .. 8 15. Average Number of Children born and living in each Family in New Zealand in 1911-16—21 9 16. The Death-rate per 1,000 at each Five Years from 1871 to 1945 .. .. .. 9 17. Number of Deaths per 1,000 Live Births, of Infants under One Year at Five-yearly Intervals from 1876 to 1945 . . .. .. . . .. . . . . 10 18. Standardized Death-rates at Quinquennial Periods from 1875 to 1944 .. .. .. 11 19. Average Annual Births, Deaths, and Natural Increase in the Quinquennial Periods from 1871-75 to 1941-45 .. ... .. .. .. .. ..11 20. Excess of Births over Deaths in the Quinquenniums from 1871-75 to 1941-45 . . .. 12 21. Net Reproductive Rate in New Zealand from 1936 to 1944 .. .. . . 12 .22. Immigration, Emigration, and Excess of Arrivals over Departures from 1861 to 1945 .. 13 23. Number of Governmentally-assisted Immigrants, Immigrants not assisted, and Average Total Migration Increase from 1909 to 1945 .. .. .. .. .. 14 24. Natural Increase, Net Migration, and Total Increase of Population in Quinquennial Periods from 1861 to 1945 . . .. .. .. .. .. .. 14 25. Maori Population at Successive Censuses, and Intercensal Movements, from 1857-58 to 1945 15 26. Provincial Distribution of Maori Population in 1936 and 1945 . . . . .. 15 27. Proportion of Different Classes comprising the Maori Population at 1926 and 1936 Censuses 16 28. Percentage of Maoris to other Races from 1874 to 1945 . . .. . . . . 16 29. Percentage Increase of Maori Population in various Districts as between 1926 and 1936 .. 16 30. Birth-rate of Maori Population from 1939 to 1944 . . . . .. . . .. 17 31. Death-rates of Maori Population from 1939 to 1944 .. . . . . . . 17 32. Comparison between Maori and European Infantile Death-rates, from 1933 to 1944 .. 17 33. Rate of Natural Increase of Maori Population and European Population from 1939 to 1945 18 34. Percentage Age-distribution of Maori Population compared with that of European Population in 1943 . . . . .. .. . . . . . . 18 35. Expectation of Life for the European Population from 1891-95 to 1934-38 .. .. 18 36. Racial Structure of the Population of New Zealand at various Censuses from 1916 to 1936 19 37. Number of Chinese in New Zealand at various Censuses from 1874 to 1936 ... .. 19 38. Number of Indians in New Zealand at various Censuses, 1881-1936 . . .. 20 39. Number of Syrians in New Zealand at various Censuses, 1896-1936 . . . . 20 40. Birthplace of Race Aliens of Full Blood, omitting Temporary Residents, in 1936 .. 21 41. Percentage of Aliens living in New Zealand in 1936 who were born here .. .. 21 42. Percentage, at various Dates, of Total Population of New-Zealand-born in Foreign Countries, 1901-1926 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 22 43. Number of Non-naturalized Foreigners in New Zealand at various Censuses, 1881-1921 .. 22 44. Number of Persons of each Foreign Nationality in New Zealand .. .. 22 45. Number of Aliens registered in New Zealand in 1946 ~ .. . . 23 46. Number of Immigrants from 1871 to 1892 .. . . . . . . . 26 47. Distribution of Immigrants into the Provinces in the 1870's and 1880's . . .. 27 48. Nationalities of Immigrants from 1871 to 1892 .. .. .. 28 49. Number of Immigrants receiving Reduced Fares, 1893-95 and 1904-21 . . . . 28

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