New Zealand Gazette – 1865 – No. 17

Page 147

✨ Census Population Statistics

Numb. 17.
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1865.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1865.

THE following Letter from the Registrar-General,
and the accompanying Returns relative to the
Census of New Zealand, taken in December, 1864,
are published for general information.

FRED. A. WELD.

CENSUS OF NEW ZEALAND,
DECEMBER, 1864.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, March 30th, 1865.

SIR,—I have the honor to forward a series of Tables
exhibiting certain principal results of the Census
of New Zealand taken on the night of the first of
December last. These tables include the whole of
the information contained in returns in anticipation
of the detailed results of the Census, which the enume-
rators for the several Provinces were instructed to
make up and transmit to me at the earliest practica-
ble date after the household forms had been collected
by the sub-enumerators. Some of the returns so
transmitted, however, required explanations or amend-
ments which involved delay, and I have not been able
until now, to present a compilation of them in a
sufficiently complete and correct state. As the figures
appear, they may, I believe, be relied on for all
practical purposes. It is probable, indeed, that when
the full returns from all the Provinces shall have
been received, and the whole shall have undergone a
final revision, some corrections may be necessary in
order to statistical accuracy; but it is very unlikely
that any alteration so required will be such as to
affect any political, financial, or social question which
may be influenced by the results of the Census.

I subjoin a list of the general contents of the
tables now presented, with a few explanatory or
illustrative remarks.

No. I. is a Summary, showing in a condensed
form the totals of the European population in the
several Provinces, with the Cultivations and Crops,
and the Live Stock in the possession of such popu-
lation. The Military Settlers and the Colonial
Defence Force are included in these totals. These
new and somewhat peculiar additions to the popula-
tion of the Colony were enumerated under a special
arrangement, intended to ensure fullness and accuracy
of information,—an Officer (generally the Command-
ing Officer) of each regiment or corps having been
appointed enumerator, and members of the regiment
or corps, selected by him, as sub-enumerators. The
best mode of dealing with this branch of the Census
seemed to me to be the inclusion of the results with
those of the Provinces in the first instance; and then
the exhibition of them separately in a distinct table,
as has been done in No. II., which shows the par-
ticulars relating to the Military Settlers, &c., in the
several Provinces, in a form similar to that in the
General Summary No. I.