POPULATION RETURNS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18230, 14 November 1924, Page 12

POPULATION RETURNS.

(FBBBS ASBOCUffIOH TELEGBAM.J

WELLINGTON, November 13

The return of the estimated popular tion of the Dominion of New Zealand and the mandated 'territory is as follows: ' Males. Females. Total. Estimated population (inc. Maori#) of N.Z. proper, Sept. 30th, 1924 691,807 654,133 1,336,003 Estimated population of Cook Islands, Niuc, etc., , Juno 30th, 1924 . 6,930 6,091 13,621 Estimated population of mandated territory of Western Samoa, June 3Wh, 1924 .. 19,688 17,828 £7,426 Estimated total population of the Dominion of N.Z. and tho mandated territory .. 716,335 6®,715 1,407,060 Estimated popular ' tion of N.Z. proper, Sept.. 30th, 1924 (excluding Maori) . . 663,327 638,643 1,801,*70 Estimated Maori

population ■ ■ £B,IBO 23,530 $4,030 North Island estimated population (including Maoris) •• 437,068 413,330 849,303 North' Island estimated population (exotud. M»oriB) . 409,704 387,709 797,413 South Island estimated population (inolud. Maoris) . 204,741 251,V0l 506,833 South Island estimated population (oxclud. Maoris) 253,623 250,034 £04,597 The total estimated increase in th® population of the Dominion proper froth® * quarter ended. September SOtli, 1924, was 6174 (including Maoris), comprising a net gain of 4235 by natural increase and 2039 by immigration. Th© net gain both from natural increase and immigration was considerably greater than the net gains experienced in tho September quarter of 1923. During the September quarter of 1924 the population (including Maoris) of the North Island increateed by 4725 and that of the South Island hy 1445.