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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.
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Statistics of the North Auckland Region
Urban Population |
Town
|
1911
|
1936
|
1951
|
1961
|
1961 Maoris
|
Kaitaia |
237 |
780 |
1,799 |
2,706 |
518 |
Kaikohe |
132 |
662 |
1,609 |
2,732 |
707 |
Whangarei |
2,664 |
7,152 |
11,851 |
17,880 |
1,239 |
Dargaville |
1,291 |
2,176 |
2,809 |
3,733 |
322 |
Total |
4,324 |
10,770 |
18,068 |
27,051 |
2,786 |
Land Occupation |
County
|
Average Area of Holdings 1960
|
Area Occupied 1960
|
|
acres |
acres |
Mangonui |
337 |
356,894 |
Whangaroa |
345 |
102,149 |
Hokianga |
272 |
244,496 |
Bay of Islands |
291 |
461,269 |
Whangarei |
292 |
572,385 |
Hobson |
357 |
367,813 |
Otamatea |
290 |
257,367 |
Rodney |
281 |
280,786 |
County Population |
County
|
1911
|
1936
|
1951
|
1961
|
1961 Maoris
|
Mangonui |
2,868 |
7,970 |
7,598 |
7,563 |
3,359 |
Whangarei |
775 |
2,533 |
2,446 |
2,304 |
960 |
Hokianga |
3,041 |
8,638 |
7,760 |
6,006 |
3,390 |
Bay of Islands |
3,015 |
9,921 |
11,788 |
13,731 |
6,188 |
Whangarei |
7,854 |
13,128 |
15,272 |
16,393 |
2,767 |
Hobson |
4,078 |
6,481 |
6,229 |
6,366 |
1,205 |
Otamatea |
3,548 |
5,184 |
6,081 |
6,936 |
970 |
Rodney |
4,249 |
5,633 |
6,465 |
7,802 |
621 |
Total county |
29,428 |
59,488 |
63,639 |
67,101 |
19,460 |
Total region |
33,752 |
70,258 |
81,707 |
94,152 |
22,246 |
Cows in Milk |
County
|
|
Cows in Milk
|
|
Dairy Cows in Milk per 100 Sheep Shorn
1960
|
|
1921–22
|
1951–52
|
1959–60
|
|
Mangonui |
7,733 |
33,338 |
33,670 |
33·01 |
Whangaroa |
1,648 |
6,497 |
6,245 |
17·15 |
Hokianga |
7,820 |
24,277 |
22,979 |
25·24 |
Bay of Islands |
10,165 |
29,438 |
28,502 |
14·10 |
Whangarei |
23,840 |
74,189 |
77,328 |
30·14 |
Hobson |
12,573 |
41,196 |
40,049 |
19·44 |
Otamatea |
10,999 |
37,060 |
34,539 |
15·08 |
Rodney |
8,320 |
30,975 |
30,892 |
10·33 |
Total |
83,098 |
276,697 |
274,204 |
.. |
by Samuel Harvey Franklin, B.COM.GEOG.,
M.A.(BIRMINGHAM), Senior Lecturer, Geography Department,
Victoria University of Wellington.
-
Report on the Provisional Land Utilisation Survey
of North Auckland, Department of Lands and Survey
(1954)
-
N.Z. Geographer, Vol. 8, Oct 1952, “The Maori
Population of Northern New Zealand”, Metge, J.