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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Population

Population.

In April, 1886, the white population of the Auckland Provincial District stood at 130,379. The succeeding census (1891) showed that it had increased by 2790, and that of 1896 showed the very satisfactory further increase of 20,405. The estimated population of the province on the 31st of December, 1899, was 165,793, which was only 8871 behind Otago, so long the most populous of the provincial districts. At the same date Auckland was 20,753 ahead of Canterbury, and had 33,373 more persons within its boundaries than Wellington. Otago had 91,631 males to 83,033 females, and in the three other large provincial districts the relative numbers were: Auckland, 87,408 males, 78,385 females; Canterbury, 74,516 and 70,542; and Wellington, 70,119 males and 62,301 females respectively. That the mining, gum-digging and sawmilling carried on so extensively in the Auckland Province have not caused a greater excess of males than there is in Wellington—where no gum exists, where gold and coal mining are, practically speaking, unknown, and where sawmilling is comparatively insignificant—may be accounted for by the fact that the many residential advantages of the city and suburbs, and, in fact, of the whole province, have the effect of keeping and attracting large numbers of those who are able to make unfettered choice of locality. Then, on account of the cheapness of living, many women have continued to reside in Auckland, while their bread-winners have been compelled
Kauri Forest, Waitakerei.

Kauri Forest, Waitakerei.

page 25 to move to less favoured parts of the Colony, where, because of climatic or other conditions, employment is better paid and less difficult to obtain.

Of the total population of the province rather more than three-eighths is centred in and around the chief city, as against a trifle over a third in Wellington, a little more than three-eights in Canterbury, and less than three-tenths in Otago.