✨ Population Statistics Table
COMPARATIVE TABLE SHOWING APPROXIMATELY THE NUMERICAL AND CENTESIMAL INCREASE OF THE EUROPEAN POPULATION IN THE SETTLEMENTS OR
PROVINCES OF NEW ZEALAND, DURING A PERIOD OF SEVEN YEARS, VIZ., 1851—1858.
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. (Page 122)
| SETTLEMENT OR PROVINCE. | 1851. | 1858. | NUMERICAL INCREASE IN SEVEN YEARS. | CENTESIMAL INCREASE IN SEVEN YEARS. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total. | M. | F. | Total Population | |
| AUCKLAND | 5,282 | 4,148 | 9,430 | 10,218 | 7,959 | 18,177 | 4,986 | 3,811 | 8,747 | 93.44 | 91.87 | 92.75 |
| NEW PLYMOUTH | 845 | 687 | 1,532 | 1,414 | 1,238 | 2,652 | 569 | 551 | 1,120 | 67.33 | 80.20 | 73.10 |
| WELLINGTON (INCLUDING HAWKE'S BAY) | 3,613 | 2,796 | 6,409 | 7,575 | 5,667 | 13,242 | 3,962 | 2,871 | 6,833 | 109.65 | 102.68 | 106.61 |
| NELSON | 2,317 | 1,970 | 4,287 | 5,203 | 4,069 | 9,272 | 2,886 | 2,099 | 4,985 | 124.55 | 106.54 | 116.28 |
| CANTERBURY | 1,965 | 1,308 | 3,273 | 5,301 | 3,666 | 8,967 | 3,386 | 2,358 | 5,694 | 169.77 | 180.97 | 173.96 |
| OTAGO | 1,018 | 763 | 1,776 | 3,874 | 3,070 | 6,944 | 2,861 | 2,307 | 5,168 | 282.42 | 302.35 | 290.99 |
| Totals | 15,035 | 11,672 | 26,707 | 33,585 | 25,669 | 59,254 | 18,550 | 13,997 | 32,547 | 123.37 | 119.91 | 121.86 |
The Numbers for 1851 are from the Abstracts of the General Census of New Zealand taken in December of that year, as published in the Government Gazette of May 31st, 1853; those for 1858 from the
Returns of the Census in last December; Stewart's Island and the Chatham Islands are not included.
Some qualification may be required from the circumstance that the Census of 1851 applied to the "Settlements" in New Zealand, while in 1858 the division of "Provinces" under the Constitution Act is
adopted. But although the geographical boundaries of the latter extend beyond the less defined limits of the former, yet, in an enumeration restricted to the European Population, the difference is not so great as
materially to affect the general value of the comparison.
JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.
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🏛️ Comparative Table of European Population Increase (1851-1858) by Province
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- John B. Bennett, Registrar-General