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 AREA AND POPULATION

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miles long, and 180 miles across at the broadest part ; coast line 8,000 miles. New Zealand is about 1,200 miles east of Australia. Area, excluding islands annexed in 1901, 103,581 square miles. North Island, 44,130 square miles, South Island 58.120, Stewart Island 662 square miles. Acreage 66,292,232 acres, exclusive of the Cook and other islands (179,200 acres), and up to March, 1920, 31,442,819 acres had been alienated, including lands reserved and set apart by the State for special purposes (13,591,041 acres). Estimated population, June 30, 1920, 1,178,722, exclusive of Maoris, 49,776 in 1916, and Cook Islanders, 12,797 in 1916. Census population, exclusive of aborigines : —

laaa

Females

Total

Increase per cent, per annum

1881

269,606 220,328

189,981

8-1

1886

312,221

266,261

57 S.

3 6

1891

332,877

293,781

626.658

1-7

1896

371,415

331,945

703,360

2 3

1901

405,992

366.:

719

19

1906

471,008

417,570

888,578

2 8

1911

531,910

476,558

1,008,468

27

1916

551,775

547,674

1,099,449

1-8

Area and population of each provincial district at the Census of October 15, 1916:—

Population at the Census

Population ••esti- mated

Provincial District

.Square If ilea

of October 15,

1916

Males

Females

Totals

Jan. 1, 1920

Auckland ....

■SJM

LStfcM

153,468

908,766

333,424

Taranaki ....

3,732

n,m

27,150

5 ■.,'.' 2".

>.c."i

Hawke's Bay.

4.241

27,194

27,073

54,267

«4M

Wellington

10,807

119,572

112.542

232,1141

MMtt

Marlborough.

4.2-r

8,508

8,102

16,608

16,970

Nelson. . ..

10.8T5

22,415

mjm

43,251

MJM

Westlsnd.

7,414

15,502

14,801

Canterbury ....

13,858

88,065

93,784

181.869

191,2*2

Otago:—

Otapo Portion

13,957

63,546

67,972

131,518

mjm

Southland Portion

11,355

30,296

2V.S33

59,629

Total.

551,775

547,674

1,099,449

1,164,405

1 Tiiis figure includes military and internment camps.

Population of the North Island, 1916, 651,072 ; South Island (including Stewart Island and Chatham Islands), 448,337. Total population, 1916, 1,162,293, including 49,776 Maoris (25,933 males, 23,843 females), and 12,797 residents of Cook and other Pacific Islands annexed in 1901. Popu- lation in 1920 (exclnding Maoris): North Island, 691,933 ; South Island (including Stewart and Chatham Islands), 472,472; total, 1,164,405.

In 1916, 506,988 lived in the rural districts ; 592,461 in boroughs.

The estimated populations of the chief cities and towns of New Zealand on January 1, 1920, were as follows: — Metropolitan areas : Auckland, 144,646 ; Wellington, 100,898 ; Christchurch, 101,747 ; Dunedin. 72,048 Suburban areas : Gisborne, 14,366 ; Napier, 16,383 ; New Plymouth, 11,051 ;