New Zealand Gazette – 1870 – No. 37

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✨ Agricultural Statistics Table



No I.

SUMMARY OF AN ACCOUNT OF LAND IN CULTIVATION, AND OF THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE THEREOF, IN NEW ZEALAND, IN FEBRUARY, 1870.
(Taken under the authority of "The Census Acts Amendment Act, 1867.")

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

POPULATION ACCORDING TO THE LAST CENSUS (DECEMBER, 1867). (a) NUMBERS OF HOLDINGS. Extent of Land broken up, but not under Crop. Acres. IN WHEAT. Acres. Estimated Gross Produce (in bushels). IN OATS. Acres. For Green Food or Hay. For Grain. Estimated Gross Produce of Grain (in bushels). IN BARLEY. Acres. Estimated Gross Produce (in bushels). IN SOWN GRASSES. IN HAY. Acres. Estimated Gross Produce (in tons). In permanent artificial Grass (including Land in Hay in previous column). Acres. IN POTATOES. Acres. Estimated Gross Produce (in tons). IN OTHER CROPS. Acres. TOTAL NUMBERS OF ACRES UNDER CROP.
PROVINCE OF AUCKLAND ... 48,321 3,179 12,090 1,544 25,866 1,551 1,413 23,262 122 2,448 4,405 5,528 133,036 3,796 19,653 1,534 142,996
TARANAKI ,, 4,359 489 810$ rac{1}{2}$ 1,031 19,185 15 251$ rac{1}{4}$ 5,466 128 2,654 289 378 22,437 638$ rac{3}{4}$ 3,412 210 24,714
WELLINGTON ,, 21,950 1,356 2,647$ rac{1}{2}$ 2,350 55,082 307 3,019$ rac{1}{4}$ 87,919 632$ rac{1}{2}$ 15,169 3,554 5,770$ rac{1}{4}$ 176,580 983 6,588 402 184,274$ rac{1}{2}$
HAWKE'S BAY ... 5,283 339 4,204$ rac{1}{4}$ 1,079 25,066 199 829 21,440 373$ rac{1}{2}$ 8,670 1,672$ rac{1}{2}$ 2,536 48,923 413 2,184 127 51,946
NELSON ,, 23,814 1,151 6,957$ rac{1}{2}$ 3,123$ rac{1}{2}$ 55,522 2,153$ rac{1}{2}$ 2,323 56,098 1,271$ rac{1}{2}$ 33,170 2,359$ rac{1}{2}$ 3,019$ rac{1}{4}$ 34,680 1,048 5,622 732$ rac{1}{2}$ 45,333$ rac{1}{2}$
MARLBOROUGH... 4,371 345 1,790$ rac{1}{2}$ 2,724$ rac{1}{2}$ 58,963 574$ rac{1}{4}$ 965 28,572 2,230$ rac{1}{4}$ 59,819 689 879$ rac{1}{2}$ 16,943 255$ rac{1}{4}$ 1,373 309$ rac{1}{2}$ 24,003
CANTERBURY ,, 38,448 3,244 31,790 52,425$ rac{1}{4}$ 1,461,953 1,708$ rac{1}{2}$ 39,951 1,328,880 16,063$ rac{1}{2}$ 504,475 8,275$ rac{1}{2}$ 11,158$ rac{1}{2}$ 102,366 1,947$ rac{1}{2}$ 10,670 3,064$ rac{1}{2}$ 217,527$ rac{1}{2}$
COUNTY OF WESTLAND 15,418 136 64$ rac{1}{2}$ ... ... 67$ rac{1}{2}$ 15$ rac{1}{2}$ 451 2 20 97$ rac{1}{2}$ 214 634 231 1,325 80$ rac{1}{2}$ 1,030
PROVINCE OF OTAGO 48,577 2,704 28,112 20,861 615,775 5,189 1,249$ rac{1}{4}$ 42,404 1,519,415 5,743 202,113 4,293 6,228 91,741 2,950 16,107 3,115 172,003
SOUTHLAND ,, 7,943 533 8,506$ rac{1}{2}$ 1,023$ rac{1}{2}$ 32,501 1,249$ rac{1}{4}$ 8,302$ rac{1}{4}$ 258,082 2,004$ rac{1}{2}$ 61,288 1,200$ rac{1}{2}$ 1,476 22,180 544$ rac{1}{2}$ 2,667 1,371$ rac{1}{2}$ 36,675

| GENERAL TOTALS IN 1870 | 218,484(b) | 13,476 | 96,974 | 86,162$ rac{1}{2}$ | 2,349,914 | 13,016 | 99,475 | 3,329,586 | 28,572 | 889,826 | 26,836 | 37,189 | 649,524 | 12,806 | 69,603 | 10,947 | 900,504 |
| GENERAL TOTALS IN 1869 | ... | 11,932 | 96,420 | 64,517 | 1,619,169 | 85,056 | 2,655,294 | 15,427 | 377,834 | 26,696 | 36,435 | 501,580 | 11,557 | 56,538 | 8,878 | 687,015 |

(a) It is certain that considerable changes in the distribution of Population in the Colony have taken place since December, 1867, but it is only when a Census is taken that any reliable numbers for the several Divisions
of the Colony can be shown. The figures here given show the latest actually ascertained numbers. The estimated Population of the whole Colony in December, 1869, was 237,249, viz., 140,112 Males, and 97,137
Females.
(b) To make this Total agree with the number (218,668) previously published in the Tables of Census Results as the Population of New Zealand, in December, 1867, it is necessary to add the Population of the
Chatham Islands, viz., 184.

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