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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5358, 30 May 1878, Page 2

In another column will lie found a table giving the numbers of males and females in each electoral district, and also of members returned for the several electorates. These figures possess considerable interest, as the .'question of the franchise is now agitating the public mind; and although the number of adult males in the colony has not yet been ascertained in the census office, an approximation based upon the; census of 1871 can betaken as sufficiently correct for general purposes. The males of the colony on the 31st of last March, exclusive of Maoris, may be set down at 231,000, and it is fair to estimate that of these *130,600 were over 21 years of age. In 1871 there were 168,000 males, of j whom 95,000 were adults. It will be seen that the males in a district do not bear anything like a regular proportion to the representatives returned -to Parliament. Colliugwood has the smallest number of males, 816, and Cheviot the total smallest population, 1351. Nelson, of those constituencies for which two members are returned, has the fewest males, 3190, and Wellington City the most, 9851. Christchurch City,,.with three members, has the largest population, 21,9761 In several districts the females exceed the males, viz., in Parnell, Newton, Onehuuga, New Plymouth Town, and Nelson City. In Nelson suburbs there are seven more males than females, and in Roslyu eleven more. Cheviot has only 156 females resident in it.