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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — NEW ZEALAND
Wanganui, 21,778; Palmerston North, 14,866; Nelson, 10,340 Valley Boroughs, 8,495; Timaru, 14,828 ; Invercargill, 18,726. Movement of the Population.
Grey
Years
1914 1916 1917 1918 1919
Total Births
28,338 28,509 28,239 25,860 24,483
Illegitimate Births
1,302 1,146 1,159 1,179 1,138
Deaths
Marriages
10,148
10,596
10,528
16.364 1
10,808
9,280 8,213 6,417 6,227 9,519
Excess of
Births over
Deaths
18,190 17,913 17,711 9,496 13,675
1 Abnormally high owing to influenza epidemic.
Birth-rate, 1919, 21 55 per 1,000 : death-rate, 951 per 1,000 rate, 8 '38.
Immigration and Emigration.
marriage
Years
Immigrants i
Emigrants *
Excess of Immigration over Emigration
1914 1915 1916
37,646 25,551 21,799
32,506 22,476 21,163
5,140
3,076
636
1917 1918 1919
15,649 11,906 20,931
13,869 1,780 11,660 246 19,877 1,054
1 Not including Expeditionary Force.
Religion.
No State aid is given to any form of religion. For the Church of England the Dominion is divided into six dioceses. The Roman Catholic Church is under an Archbishop residing at Wellington, assisted by a coadjutor Archbishop and three bishops.
Denomination
Number of
Clergy June, 1918
446 343
263 259
45
Total places of worship. Census 1916
Number of members or adherents. Cen8usl916
Proportion
per cent, of
specified
religions
Church of England Roman Catholic
1,142
1,070
442
690
66
m
125 53 81 4
117
459,021 260,659 151,605 100,024 20,872
42-90
24 86
1417
9-91
1-95
Salvation Army
Church of Christ Congregationalism
Other Bodies
134 1
27
29
5
86
1,638
10,004 9,758 9,249 B.SH 2,341
32,194
0-94 91 086 0-77 0-22 3 01
Total .
8,847
1,069,948
100-00
Instruction.
In 1916, 95'0 per cent, of the population over 5 years of age (excluding Maoris) were recorded at the census as able to read and write, 0'8 per cent, as able to read only, and 4'2 per cent, as unable to read.
