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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — NEW ZEALAND

Wanganui, 21,778; Palmerston North, 14,866; Nelson, 10,340 Valley Boroughs, 8,495; Timaru, 14,828 ; Invercargill, 18,726. Movement of the Population.

Grey

Years

1914 1916 1917 1918 1919

Total Births

28,338 28,509 28,239 25,860 24,483

Illegitimate Births

1,302 1,146 1,159 1,179 1,138

Deaths

Marriages

10,148

10,596

10,528

16.364 1

10,808

9,280 8,213 6,417 6,227 9,519

Excess of

Births over

Deaths

18,190 17,913 17,711 9,496 13,675

1 Abnormally high owing to influenza epidemic.

Birth-rate, 1919, 21 55 per 1,000 : death-rate, 951 per 1,000 rate, 8 '38.

Immigration and Emigration.

marriage

Years

Immigrants i

Emigrants *

Excess of Immigration over Emigration

1914 1915 1916

37,646 25,551 21,799

32,506 22,476 21,163

5,140

3,076

636

1917 1918 1919

15,649 11,906 20,931

13,869 1,780 11,660 246 19,877 1,054

1 Not including Expeditionary Force.

Religion.

No State aid is given to any form of religion. For the Church of England the Dominion is divided into six dioceses. The Roman Catholic Church is under an Archbishop residing at Wellington, assisted by a coadjutor Archbishop and three bishops.

Denomination

Number of

Clergy June, 1918

446 343

263 259

45

Total places of worship. Census 1916

Number of members or adherents. Cen8usl916

Proportion

per cent, of

specified

religions

Church of England Roman Catholic

1,142

1,070

442

690

66

m

125 53 81 4

117

459,021 260,659 151,605 100,024 20,872

42-90

24 86

1417

9-91

1-95

Salvation Army

Church of Christ Congregationalism

Other Bodies

134 1

27

29

5

86

1,638

10,004 9,758 9,249 B.SH 2,341

32,194

0-94 91 086 0-77 0-22 3 01

Total.

8,847

1,069,948

100-00

Instruction.

In 1916, 95'0 per cent, of the population over 5 years of age (excluding Maoris) were recorded at the census as able to read and write, 0'8 per cent, as able to read only, and 4'2 per cent, as unable to read.