CENSUS RETURNS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 24 January 1907, Page 2

CENSUS RETURNS

■Hie census Mums show thai, ex elusive of .Mauris, there were there h!>.V>(b people in the colony on 24th April last The great majority are iVw Zealand bom, 000,247 acknowledging this as their birthplace. Eug- &' s "°" u ilB ""> birthplaco of 110,500, Scotland 47,707, h-eland '12,400, and Wales 2144. j ioUl .Seotcii ami Irish show decreases, and Engli'nd, Wales, \ew Zealand and all the Australian) Slates goodly increases, the number of New Zealand bom having advanced by |IO,M|. U , ijlc! .„ show a falling oil of 300. or 1().:14 per cent since the census in J'loi. lt i(i interesting to note that .Maoris show an actual increase Irani 4:1.112 at the 1001 census to 47,701 in April last, an increase of over HI per cent. This seems to show that the iMaori birthrate is higher than the European, which works out at 8 per cent for the' live years. It is hard to credit these figures, in view of the heavy mortality amongst the native population The. tolal p„p„iali„„, iueluive of tne (Jouk Islands, was !>.>S.fi-l!l. an advance of lo per cent, since 1001. If (.his rate, of increase continues the next census will give us a population of considerably over a million souls. The census shows that the. proportion of females lo every hundred males is 88. as against 00 at the previous census.' The chances of marriage are thus 2 per cent hctltcr 1 . in favour of flu* women, due to the larger immigration ill' males. That there is still"plimtv of land for a bigger population is shown from the fact that there are only 8.5 people, to the square mile, or about one person (man. woman ur child) to every eighty acre's. Tuva, nnki, which ivil live increase of population live years ago, is onlv fourlh now, Wellington being first. Auckland second, and llawkc's liay tliiril.