NATIVE POPULATION.
AN INURE ISE. (Special to Times,) Wellington, last night. According to tho report of the Undersecretary for Native Affairs, tho Maori census shows an increase of 4588 over the number for 1901. There arc now 47,701 natives in New Zealand as compared with 48,143 in 11)01, 89,854 in 1890, and 48,595 in 1878. The Maori population of the North Island is 44,902, an increase of ■1255 ; of tho South Island 2256, an increase of 3-10 ; of Stewart Island 100, a decrease of 12 ; of the Chatham Islands 202, a decrease of 10. There are only thirty Morioris left.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1909, 19 October 1906, Page 2
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100NATIVE POPULATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1909, 19 October 1906, Page 2
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