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THE BRITISH EMPIRE : — CAPE PROVINCE

Administrator. — The Hon. Sir Frederic de Waal, K.C.M.G. (Salary 2,500Z.)

The Province is divided into 119 magisterial districts, and the Colony proper, including Bechuanaland, but exclusive of the Transkeian territories, into 86 fiscal divisions. In each division there is a Civil Commissioner, who is, in all cases where the fiscal and magisterial areas coincide, also the Resi- dent Magistrate. Each division has a Council of at least 6 members (14 in the Cape Division) elected triennially by the owners or occupiers of im- movable property. These Councils look after roads, boundaries, and beacons; return 3 members to the Licensing Court, and perform other local duties.

There are 128 Municipalities, each governed by a Mayor or Chairman and Councillors, a certain number of whom are elected annually by the ratepayers. There are also 75 Village Management Boards.

Area and Population. — The following table gives the population of the Cape of Good Hope at each census : —

Census

All Races

White

Coloured

Year

Total

Males

Females

Males

Females

Males

Females

1865 . 1875 . 1891 . 1904 . 1911 . 1918.

496,381

720,984

1,527,224

2,409,804

2,564,965

255,760

369,628

767,327

1,218,940

1,255,671

240,621

351,356

759,897

1,190,864

1,309,294

95,410 123,910 195,956 318,544 301,268 311,312

86,182 112,873 181,031 261,197 2S1.109 307,513

160.350 846,718

571,871 900,396 954,403

154,439 238,483 678,881 929,607 1,038,185

The following table gives the area and population of the Province native Territories in 1911 and 1918: —

and

Area in Sq. Mile*.

Census Population in 1911

131S.

Kuropoaii Popwxtioil

European o. ] oure d or White loured

Total

Colony proper. East Griqualand. Tembuland Transkei. 1 Walfish Bay, &c. Pondoland. Bechuanaland.

208,661 6,602 3,339 2,504 430 3,906 51,524

546,162 1,007,468 7,950 i 241,138 8,138 ' 227,948 2,189 ' 186,706 1,638 ! 1,438 1,383 233,254 14,917 84,636

1,553,630 249,088 236,086 188,895 3,076 234,637 99,553

585,021 5,866 4,292 2,228 1,391 1,311 18,716

Total Province.

276,966

582,377 1,982,588

2,564,965

618,825

l Including travi'lli'is tiv rail.

Of the coloured population iu 1911, 19,763 were Malays, and 416,283 :i mixture of various races ; the rest are Hottentots, Fingoes, Kaflks, ami Bechuanas.

Chief towns : white population in 1918 :— Cape Town, 99,693 : Kind 17,188; Port Elizabeth, 23,339; Graham's Town, 7,087; Paarl, 5,550;