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Numb. 26.
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1862.
CENSUS OF NEW ZEALAND, DECEMBER 1861.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 24th June, 1862.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to direct the publication of the
following letter from the Registrar-General,
and the accompanying Returns relative to the
Census of New Zealand taken in December
1861.
WILLIAM FOX.
Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, June 19th, 1862.
SIR, I have the honour to present here-
with a series of Tables, containing certain
principal results of the Census of New Zea-
land, taken on the 16th of December last.
They have been prepared with the greatest
practicable dispatch after the receipt of the
necessary information, and comprise those
branches of the Census Statistics on which
there is the most general desire that the results
should be officially made known without the
delay which must necessarily attend a suffi-
ciently careful compilation of other portions
(such as those relating to Education, Religious
Denominations, Occupations, Places of Birth,
&c.,) throughout the Colony; all of which,
as well as fuller details of information here-
with presented in a condensed form, will be
included in the Volume of Statistics for 1861
now in course of preparation.
The late Census was taken under arrange-
ments designed to collect the required in-
formation not only for the Colony as a whole
and for the several Provinces, but also for
each of the Electoral Districts established
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and defined by "The Representation Act,
1860," of the General Assembly. The fol-
lowing Tables have been constructed in
pursuance of this plan. Thus,
Table I. shows the Population of the Colony
according to the division into Provinces,
distinguishing the Sexes and the Ages as
given in the Census Schedules; together with
the Numbers and Descriptions of the Houses,
and (in Notes) the Condition (Conjugal) of
the People, the Population of the Chief Cities
or Towns of the Provinces, and the Numbers
of Half-Castes in each Province. Table II.
contains similar information respecting the
Houses and the Numbers of the People in
each of the Electoral Districts, but in this
Table a different classification of Ages has
been adopted,-viz., under twenty-one years,
and twenty-one and upwards.
Tables III. and V. respectively show the
Live Stock in the possession of Europeans
in each of the Provinces, and in each of
the Electoral Districts. An enumeration of
"Poultry," now for the first time introduced,
has been added after the mode adopted in
the Censuses of the Australian Colonies.
Tables IV. and VI. relate to Cultivation
and Crops, showing respectively for each
Province and each Electoral District the
Quantity of Land Fenced and the Number of
Acres under each of the Principal Crops.
The correctness of the figures given in
these several Tables may, I am satisfied, be
safely relied on for all practical purposes. It
is right, however, to observe that fuller
information on certain points is still expected
from some of the Districts, and that the
whole has to undergo a final revision on a
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NZ Gazette 1862, No 26
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🏛️ Publication of 1861 New Zealand Census Results Tables
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration24 June 1862
Census, Population statistics, 1861, Electoral Districts, Provinces, Tables
- William Fox