THE DOMINION’S POPULATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 378, 15 February 1908, Page 4

THE DOMINION’S POPULATION.

A return just issued by the Registrar - General supplies some very interesting information as to the movement of the population of this country during the past five years. This is the best shown in the appended table:— Methods of Increase. Excess of Excess of Centesimal births arrivals increase over over on previous deaths, departures, years. 13.301 11,275 3‘°4 1904 !4,679 10,355 3‘oi 62 * 9,302 2*91 190615,913 12,848 3-28 *90715,033 5.730 2-26 The exceptionally large net increase from abroad in 1906 was contributed to by the Christchurch Exhibition. The reduced figures for 1907, the smallest for the quinquennium, were mainly due to a more equal interchange of people with Australasia and to the departure of 579 persons to British Columbia. In the whole five-yearly period New Zealand, accoidiug to the returns, gained a total of 49.510 persons.

An exceptionally heavy mortality in 1907 pulled down the figures showing the gain by excess of births over deaths in that year. The total excess of births was 74,547 for the quinquennium, and for the year 1907 the figures were 1 5>°33 ! hut the death rate for that year was 10.97 P er 1000 persons living as against 9.31 in 1906. The two sources of increasing population each yielded fewer people in 1097 than in 1906, the result being that whereas the population increased at the rate of 3.26 per cent, in 1906, last year it was only 2.28 per cent.