NUMBER OF HOLDINGS TO THE POPULATION.
nu,r -her of land-owners in England and Wales in 1871 was 22,924. Tlnf population at the-eame time wa5'22,712,266, so that there was one holding fbrjvJjout every 991 people. It is interesting to compare this exclusive state of hind tenure with that far more widely distributed condition which prevails in New Zealand; and also the conditions with regard to it of the people of the different parts of the Colony respectively. The figures in the two first columns are taken from the official volume of statistics for 1874, which contains the results of the agricultural census taken in February of last year. It will be seen that on an average, in this Province, there is one “holding” of one acre or more in extent to every fifteen of the population, whilst for the Colony it is one holding to thirteen
Province. Population. Holdings. One in about Auckland ... 67,451 5,401 12$ Taranaki ... 5,465 726 8 Wellington ... 29,790 2,441 12 Hawkes Bay Marlborough 9,224 6,143 * • 653 621 14 10 Nelson 22,558 1,766 13 Westland ... 14,860 '315 47 Canterbury... 68,775 ' 5,120 1U Otago 85,113 * 6,857 IB 299,385 • 22,900 iiT
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Evening Star, Issue 3854, 1 July 1875, Page 2
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191NUMBER OF HOLDINGS TO THE POPULATION. Evening Star, Issue 3854, 1 July 1875, Page 2
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