PUBS AND POPULATION
AX IXTEUESTIXG EETU'KN. A return compiled by the Government Static ieian shows that at tlie A\d of the VMC financial year the total number of licenses in tbe Dominion was 11 US. and iliat the capital value of the licensed houses was .C 2.-253.108. Of the licensed houses 3!IS. capital value Cl,4iU,T"l. were in boroughs and cities, 337, of a i.ipital value of £7<)<l v ".'i3, were ; situated in counties, and the balance, : 43. capital value £lll.tin». 'were in town j districts. The average number of per- ; fions to each licensed lioiac tltroughout : the Dominion was '.120. of the cities and boroughs, omitting, of course, the "dry" districts, Devonport has the largest i number of residents to each public house, there bein- 3f>32 persons to each licensed hou.-c. Of the four cities. Auckland has "A hotel-, representing one for every . 1229 people in the city: Wellington has •17, being one l'or each 1430 ■persons; Christchnroh has AC, hotels, representing | one for every 1253 residents, and iDuncj din. with ''■■'■> licensed iioases, has one i for every 1-177 of tliat city's population. I . New Plymouth has one for every [135, I'atc.a one for every (i'V.) and WoodTille . one for every -30. In Kuniara there are j no less than ten hotels, being one for 'every <i3 persons; Poss has one for I every S2 persons, llokitika has one for j every 131, ilrunner one for every 147, ! (ircyuioufch one for every -2(!7, and West- • port one for every 324 residents. In the \ southern part of the .South Island the i number of residents to each hotel is i smaller than the average, Naseby boast - ! ing of a licensed house for each SO of its residents, Queenstown one for every j.178, Kiverton one for every 177. Arrow - j town ono for every 137, and Roxborough | one for every 120. Of the North Island ; towns, Thanjes, with 10 hotels, and Woodvillo with five, share honors as i having a licensed house to a less number of people than any other borough in the ■ Island, their population to each hotel | buinij 233.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1917, Page 8
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