New Zealand Gazette – 1918 – No. 52

Page 1029

✨ Post Office Closures and Immigration Statistics



APRIL 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1029

OFFICES—continued.

Office. District. Date.
TELEPHONE-OFFICES CLOSED.
Aratoro Auckland 9 January, 1918.
Braeburn Nelson 16 October, 1917.
Horsham Downs Auckland 8 February, 1918.
Mangaituroa Wanganui 12 January, ""
Orangapai.. Dunedin 7 September, 1917.
Pakarae Gisborne 31 January, 1918.
Patetere Auckland 31 "", ""
Te Aroha West Thames 12 December, 1917.
Tuhua Hokitika 18 "", 1916.
Waitewhena Auckland 31 "", 1917.

TELEGRAPH RECEIVING-OFFICE CLOSED.

Timaru Railway Timaru 21 January, 1918.

Immigration and Emigration Returns.

RETURN of IMMIGRATION to and EMIGRATION from the DOMINION of NEW ZEALAND during the MONTH of MARCH 1918, showing the Places from which Persons arrived and to which they departed, and the Ports of Arrival and Departure.

ARRIVALS FROM AND DEPARTURES TO DIFFERENT PLACES.

Countries. Adults. Children. Total Adults. Children. Total
M. F. M. F. Persons. M.
United Kingdom 96 67 11 8 182 1
Australian Commonwealth 377 373 57 49 856 535
Cook Islands 5 3 1 9 9
Fiji 24 19 10 8 61 9
Canada 22 8 30 28
United States 7 5 3 15 9
Hawaii 5 2 7 15
Samoa 9 7 4 5 25 6
Foreign Pacific Islands (undefined) 2 2 2 6 5
Totals, March, 1918 547 486 85 78 1,191 617
Totals, March, 1917 1,301 606 97 111 2,115 1,639

The excess of the departures from New Zealand over the arrivals therein during the month of March, 1918, was therefore 156 persons, as against 466 in the corresponding month of 1917.

ARRIVALS AT AND DEPARTURES FROM DIFFERENT NEW ZEALAND PORTS.*

Ports. Adults. Children. Males. Females. Total Adults. Children. Males. Females. Total
Persons. Persons.
Auckland 461 90 315 236 551 455 48 271 232 503
Wellington 540 64 303 301 604 715 72 405 382 787
Invercargill 32 4 14 22 36 49 8 14 43 57
Totals, March, 1918 1,033 158 632 559 1,191 1,219 128 690 657 1,347
Totals, March, 1917 1,907 208 1,398 717 2,115 2,419 162 1,722 859 2,581

CHINESE (included above).

Arrivals.

Males. Females.
At Auckland 4
Wellington 5
9

Departures.

Males. Females.
From Auckland 11
Wellington 32
43

NOTE.—Figures of arrivals and departures do not include members of Expeditionary Forces.

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

Census and Statistics Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1918.
MALCOLM FRASER,
Government Statistician.



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🚂 Post and Telegraph Department Offices Opened and Closed (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
5 April 1918
Post Offices, Telephone Offices, Closures

🛂 Immigration and Emigration Returns for March 1918

🛂 Immigration
8 April 1918
Immigration, Emigration, Statistics, March 1918
  • MALCOLM FRASER, Government Statistician