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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 46

New Zealand Rainfall for March, 1921—continued.

Station.

Total Fall, Points (100 to Inch).

Days with Rain.

SOUTH ISLAND—continued.

(G.) EAST ASPECT—KAIKOURA TO CAPE SAUNDERS—continued.

Totara Station, near Oamaru

Duntroon

Pukeuri, Oamaru

Oamaru

Steward Settlement, Oamaru

Trotter's Creek, Hillgrove

Kauroo Hill, Maheno

Bushey Park, Palmerston South

Opoho, Dunedin (383 ft.)

Burnside, Dunedin

Fish-hatchery, Portobello

Whare Flat

Mosgiel

(H.) SOUTH ASPECT—CAPE SAUNDERS TO PUYSBURG POINT.

Paerau

Great Moss Swamp, via Patearoa

Eweburn Nursery, Ranfurly

Waipiata

Naseby

Robertslea, Middlemarch

Tarra

Mount Pisa Station, Cromwell

Maungawera, Otago

Luggate, Cromwell

Manorburn Dam

Frankton

Queenstown

Moa Creek

St. Bathan's

Blackstone Hill

Clyde

Earnscleugh

Teviot River

Roxburgh

Sunnyvale Orchard, Island Block

Balclutha

Garston

Fairlight Station, Nokomai

Glenfalloch Station, Nokomai

Wendonside

Wendon

Lawrence

Owaka

Tapanui Nursery

Edievale

Waikawa Valley

Tahakopa, Wharuarimu

Uplands, Waimahaka

Roslin Estate, Woodlands

Dipton

Bluff

Radio-Awarua

Nightcaps

New Zealand Rainfall for March, 1921—continued.

Station.

Total Fall, Points (100 to Inch).

Days with Rain.

SOUTH ISLAND—continued.

(H.) SOUTH ASPECT—CAPE SAUNDERS TO PUYSBURG POINT— continued.

Otatau

Creighton

Manapouri

(I.) ISLANDS.

Centre Island

Stewart Island

Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island

Niue Island

Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Aitutaki Island, Cook Islands

Mangaia, Cook Islands

Chatham Island

Vava'u

LATE RETURNS.

Waiotapu, October, 1920

,, December, 1920

Rawhitiroa, February, 1921

East Cape, January, 1921

,, February, 1921

Waitakaro, February, 1921

Tahora, February, 1921

Napier, October, 1920

,, November, 1920

,, December, 1920

,, January, 1921

,, February, 1921

Waipukurau, February, 1921

Bush Grove, January, 1921

Tyneside, January, 1921

,, February, 1921

Picton (Freezing-works), January, 1921

Yncyca, August, 1920

Ward, January, 1921

Timara Station, January, 1921

,, February, 1921

Avondale Station, November, 1920

Puysbur Point, February, 1921

Gore Bay, March, 1920

Gore Bay, October, 1920

Akaroa, December, 1920

Staveley, December, 1920

Waratah, November, 1920

,, February, 1921

Stewart Settlement, December, 1920

Burnside, January, 1921

Manapouri, September, 1920

,, October, 1920

Rata View, Peel Forest, February, 1921 Incomplete.

Puwera, Whangarei, February, 1921 Incomplete.

Uruti, February, 1921

Vava'u, Tonga, February, 1921

Population of the Dominion.*

RETURN of the Estimated Population of the Dominion of New Zealand on the 31st March, 1921.

Males.

Females.

Total.

Estimated population (exclusive of Maoris) on 31st December, 1920

604,753 590,079 1,194,832

Births registered in March quarter, 1921 3,482 3,353 6,835

Deaths registered in March quarter, 1921 1,393 1,051 2,444

Excess of births over deaths 2,089 2,302 4,391

Arrivals during March quarter, 1921 6,426 5,649 12,075

Departures during March quarter, 1921 3,549 3,027 6,576

Excess of arrivals over departures 2,877 2,622 5,499

Total net increase during March quarter, 1921 4,966 4,924 9,890

Estimated population (exclusive of Maoris and residents of Cook and other Pacific islands) on 31st March, 1921 609,719 595,003 1,204,722

Maori population, Census, 1916 25,933 23,843 49,776

Population of Cook and other Pacific islands, Census, 1916 6,552 6,245 12,797

Total estimated population of the Dominion on 31st March, 1921 642,204 625,091 1,267,295

• Subject to revision.

MALCOLM FRASER,

Government Statistician.

Census and Statistics Office,

Wellington, 10th May, 1921.