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Statistics of the Southland Region
Urban Population |
Town
|
1911
|
1936
|
1951
|
1961
|
1961 Maoris
|
Queenstown |
696 |
931 |
1,008 |
1,321 |
3 |
Gore |
3,258 |
4,635 |
5,551 |
7,270 |
45 |
Mataura |
1,199 |
1,500 |
1,715 |
2,085 |
61 |
Winton |
564 |
877 |
1,133 |
1,473 |
.. |
Invercargill |
14,170 |
22,494 |
28,074 |
35,605 |
365 |
Bluff |
1,780 |
2,038 |
2,251 |
3,042 |
159 |
Riverton |
936 |
908 |
1,018 |
1,225 |
8 |
Total |
22,603 |
33,383 |
40,745 |
52,021 |
641 |
Cows in Milk |
County
|
Cows in Milk
|
|
|
Dairy Cows in Milk per 100 Sheep Shorn
|
|
1921–22 |
1951–52 |
1959–60 |
1960 |
Lake |
1,016 |
845 |
524 |
0.16 |
Southalnd |
52,119 |
37,788 |
21,555 |
0.54 |
Wallace |
13,555 |
10,628 |
6,575 |
0.47 |
Fiord |
.. |
.. |
.. |
.. |
Stewart Island |
77 |
33 |
15 |
0.61 |
Total |
66,767 |
49,294 |
28,669 |
.. |
County Population |
County
|
1911
|
1936
|
1951
|
1961
|
Maoris 1961
|
Lake |
2,364 |
2,904 |
1,854 |
2,011 |
3 |
Southland |
26,460 |
28,243 |
26,545 |
30,619 |
433 |
Wallace |
9,422 |
11,238 |
10,547 |
11,591 |
119 |
Fiord |
42 |
19 |
29 |
51 |
6 |
Stewart Island |
325 |
617 |
576 |
542 |
84 |
Total county |
38,613 |
43,021 |
39,551 |
44,814 |
645 |
Total region |
61,216 |
76,404 |
80,296 |
96,835 |
1,286 |
Land Occupation |
County
|
Average Area of Holdings 1960
|
Area Occupied 1960
|
|
acres |
acres |
Lake |
8,085 |
1,511,914 |
Southland |
516 |
2,087,429 |
Wallace |
924 |
1,178,344 |
Fiord |
.. |
.. |
Stewart Island |
345 |
17,926 |
by Samuel Harvey Franklin, B.COM.GEOG.,
M.A.(BIRMINGHAM), Senior Lecturer, Geography Department,
Victoria University of Wellington.
-
New Zealand Geographer, Vol. 7, Apr 1951,
“Pastoral Murihiku”, Critchfield, H. J.
-
Economic Geography, Vol. 30, Oct 1954, “The
Growth of Pastoralism in Southland”
-
N.Z. Journal of Agriculture, Vol. 88, Aug
1949, “Farming in New Zealand – Southland”, Stuart, A.