New Zealand Gazette – 1896 – No. 29

Page 671

✨ Post Office Updates and Immigration Statistics



April 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 671

Office. District. Date.
Waikawa POSTAL-NOTE OFFICE CLOSED. Invercargill
*St. Albans TELEPHONE-OFFICES OPENED. Christchurch
†Robin Hood Bay Blenheim
St. Albans TELEPHONE BUREAU OPENED. Christchurch
  • Now post-office and telephone and bureau. † No post-office.

DESIGNATIONS CHANGED.

Description. Office. District. Date.
From To
Post, telephone, and money-order office and Post-Office Savings-bank Alexandra Pirongia .. Auckland ..
Post, telephone, and postal-note office .. Tutaekara Hamua .. Wellington ..

RETURN of IMMIGRATION to and EMIGRATION from the COLONY of NEW ZEALAND during the MONTH of MARCH, 1896, showing the Places from which Persons arrived and to which they departed, and the Ports of Arrival and Departure.

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES FROM AND TO DIFFERENT PLACES.

Countries. ARRIVALS. DEPARTURES.
Adults. Children. Total Persons. Adults. Children. Total Persons.
M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F.
United Kingdom .. 47 30 9 4 90 113 64 14 17 208
Queensland .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 3 .. 5
New South Wales .. 486 249 39 44 818 851 530 61 73 1,515
Victoria .. 155 102 19 20 296 198 166 18 28 410
South Australia .. .. .. 1 .. 1 .. .. .. .. ..
Western Australia .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Tasmania .. 51 29 9 4 93 98 26 .. .. 124
Fiji .. 12 11 8 7 38 4 10 .. 2 16
Other British possessions .. 2 2 .. .. 4* 9 11 .. .. 20†
Pacific Islands .. 14 2 4 3 23‡ 12 2 .. .. 14§
Other foreign ports .. 8 2 .. .. 10 34 12 6 3
Totals .. 775 427 89 82 1,373 1,319 823 102 123 2,367
  • From Cook Islands. † Six for Cook, 14 for Norfolk Island. ‡ Two from Navigator, 7 from Friendly, 10 from Society, and 4 from Sandwich Islands. § Ten for Friendly, 4 for Society Islands. || From San Francisco. ¶ Forty-eight for San Francisco, 1 for Rio de Janeiro, and 6 for Monte Video.

ARRIVALS AT AND DEPARTURES FROM DIFFERENT NEW ZEALAND PORTS.*

Ports. ARRIVALS. DEPARTURES.
Adults. Children. Males. Females. Total Persons. Adults. Children. Males. Females. Total Persons.
Kaipara .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 2 4 2 6
Auckland .. 518 80 399 199 598 911 76 584 403 987
Wellington .. 349 40 233 156 389 723 97 506 314 820
Napier .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 .. 1 .. 1
Lyttelton .. 1 .. 1 .. 1 12 3 11 4 15
Timaru .. 1 1 .. 2 2 .. .. .. .. ..
Dunedin .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 .. 1 1 2
Bluff .. 333 50 231 152 383 489 47 314 222 536
Totals .. 1,202 171 864 509 1,373 2,142 225 1,421 946 2,367

CHINESE.—Arrivals (at Auckland 1, at Wellington 14), 15. Departures (from Wellington), 15.

  • It is important to mention that, in the returns from which this table is made up, immigrants to the colony are all counted at the first port of arrival, and emigrants at the final port of departure.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1896.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.



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✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🚂 Post Office Openings and Closures (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
13 April 1896
Post offices, Telephone offices, Designation changes, 1896

🛂 Return of Immigration and Emigration for March 1896

🛂 Immigration
20 April 1896
Immigration, Emigration, Statistics, March 1896
  • E. J. von Dadelszen, Registrar-General