DOMINION STATISTICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 400434, 28 December 1929, Page 2

DOMINION STATISTICS.

INTERESTING INFORMATION.

The following miscellaneous statistical information is supplied in the “Abstract of Statistics” for December :• —

Vital statistics, 1928:—Numbers —births, 27,200; marriages, 10,537; death's, 11,811; deaths of infants under one year, 984. Rates par 1000 of mean papulationbirths, 19.56; marriages, 7.55; Heaths, 8.49; infant mortality, rate per 1000 births, 36.18. Live stock in Dominion, 1929: Horses, 298,986; cattle, 3,445,790 (including 1,371,063 dairy cows in milk and dry); sheep, 29,051,382; pigs, 556,732. Agriculture - Acreages, 192829:—Wheat, 255,312; oats, 73,101; barley, 19,'500; perennial ryegrass, '21,536; cocksfoot, 11,255. Yields, total and per acre: Wheat, B,B32,B64'hushels (34.60); oats, 3,065,113 bushels (41.93); barley, 781,102 bushels (40.06); perennial ryegrass, 8,948,1681 b. (415.50); cocksfoot, 2,048,8321 b. (182.04). Factory production 1927-28: Number of establishments, 5166; total number of employees, 81,756; salaries and wages paid, £16,877,778; value of products, £87,732,003; value of land, buildings, machinery and plant, £64,674,150. Taxation by General Government, year ended Alarch 31, 1929: Customs revenue (excluding petrel tax and tyre tax), £7,954,252; beer duty, £611,484; land tux, £1,140,324; income tax, £3,310,877; death duties, £1,944,513; totalisator revenue, £541,179; motor vehicles taxation, £1,243^577; other, £1,085,827; total, £17,832,033, or £l2 4/3 per head of population, including .Maoris. ,

Taxation by local governing bodies, year ended Alarch 31, 1928: Rates, £5,600,024; licenses, etc., £507,703; total, £6,107,727.

Gross indebtedness of General Government as at March 31, 1929: £264,191,983, or £179 12/10' per head of population, including Afaoris.

Indebtedness of local governing bodies, Alarch 31, 1928: On debentures and stock—gross, £58,949,028; net, £51,812,971. On loans jfromi State Advances Office — amount borrowed, £6,325,700; aniount owing, £5,325,401. On loans irom Treasury (inscribed debt) gross, £2,129,743; estimated net indebtedness (aetuarially computed). £944,315. Capital value of land and improvements, April 1, 1929: North Island, £442,531,663; South Island, £213,375,224; counties, £347,573,101; boroughs, £299,282,264; and \ independent town districts, £9,051,-.-522; total, £655,906,887. Unimproved value of land: North Island’, £220,683,184; South Island, £123,874,612; ■ counties, £217,452,287; boroughs, £123,812,336; and independent town districts, £3,493,173; total, £344,757,796. 'Divorce, 1928: Petitions filed, 785; decrees absolute, 572; decrees nisi, 653. ' ,<

Bankruptcy, 1928': Number of bankruptcies under the Bankruptcy Act, 806; amount of debts proved, £707,327; assets realised by Official Assignees, £116,613. 'Civil cases tried in Magistrates’ Courts: 1928 —Plaints entered, 85,243; amount claimed, £1,463,769;. cases tried, 55,751; amount claimed in cases tried, £951,916; amount recoA’ered, £774,912. Nine months ended September 30, 1929—Plaints entered, 66,247; amount claimed, £1,090,424; cases tried, 41,988; amount claimed in eases tried, £694,177; amount recovered, £577,044. Summary convictions in Magistrates’ Courts: Year 1928, 45,150. Articles posted and delivered, year 1928: Letters and lettercards, 298,548,364; post-cards, 9,450,468; books and pattern packets, 154,512,609; parcels/ 6,981,•085; neivspapers, 48,257,194; post offices open, 1897. A - . Telegraphic and telephonic wire at March 31, 1929: Telegraphic, 62,992 miles; telephonic, 495,470 miles.

Roads in Dominion (formed to not less than dray Avidth) as at March 31, 1929 —paved -or surfaced, 33,186 miles; not paved or surfaced, 15,135 miles; total, 48,321 miles. Main JiigWays (included in the foregoing), 10,403 miles. -Bridges (over 25 feet) in road system —number, 5597; total length, 498,260 ft.