RACIAL ELEMENTS
DOMINION’S POPULATION AN INTERESTING COMPARISON (.From Our Resident Reporter .) WELLINGTON, To-day. An interesting table comparing the various racial elements of the Dominion’s population is given by the Government Statistician in the monthly abstract. According to the results obtained from census of 1926 94.6 per cent, of til a population was of unmixed European descent, and 45,429 full-blooded Maoris formed 3.23 per cent., and there were 24,924 Maoris of mixed European Maori ancestry, or 1.72 per cent. Among the aliens there were: Chinese, 3 : 372; Syrians, 951; Indians, 959; and Polynesians, 697. Indians nearly doubled their number between the 1921 census and that of 1926. Syrians increased greatly but the Chinese have not shown any big gain.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 13
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118RACIAL ELEMENTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 348, 8 May 1928, Page 13
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