H.—26a.

Table IV. —Showing the Population of the Islands adjacent to New Zealand— continued.

Table V. —Showing the Number of Persons on Shipboard at the several Ports of the Colony of New Zealand as on the 31st March, 1901 (arranged in order of Electoral Districts).

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Population. Islands. Persona. Males. Females. Eangitoto Brown's Mercury ... Cuvier and Lighthouse ... .... Slipper Motiti ... ... ... .... East Island Lighthouse Portland and Lighthouse Kapiti Somes and Lighthouse Stephen's Brothers Lighthouse ... Quarantine ... Euapuke Dog Islan d and Lighthouse Centre and Lighthouse Eesolution 3 8 14 7 3 2 6 21 3 7 18 3 2 9 16 9 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 5 13 1 5 9 3 1 9 9 5 2 4 9 3 1 8 2 2 9 1 '"l 4 Total of islands adjacent to New Zealand ... Chatham Islands Kermadec Islands 943 207 8 589 112 5 354 95 3 Total ... 1,158 706 452

Electoral DUttict. Port, &c. Persons. Males. Females. Bay of Islands , Marsden Waitemata Auckland Eden Manukau Thames ... Ohinemuri Bay of Plenty a Waiapu ... Waikato... Egmont... Taranaki Napier ... Wanganui Wellington Wairau ... Mongonui... Kohukohu Bussell Hobson ... Whangarei Warkworth Helensville Auckland... Devonport Onehunga Whitianga Thames Harbour ... Thames Biver Ohinemuri Biver Tauranga... Opotiki Gisborne ... Kawhia ... Waitara ... New Plymouth Napier Wanganui Wellington Sounds Picton Waimea ... Motueka ... Buller Biver Westport ... Nelson Greymouth Hokitika ... Akaroa Lyttelton... Timaru Oamaru ... Port Chalmers Dunedin ... Bluff Harbour Stewart Island 18 22 26 163 31 17 27 874 1 47 14 8 11 50 1 5 58 1 5 87 241 5 333 2 95 3 23 4 236 157 89 5 5 321 62 17 149 228 303 19 18 21 24 152 31 17 26 813 1 46 12 8 11 44 1 5 55 1 5 71 201 5 296 2 66 3 23 4 210 126 89 5 5 306 62 17 148 217 244 19 1 2 11 I "'l 61 ' 1 2 6 "3 16 40 37 "29 a • • • Motueka a Buller ... Nelson ... Grey Westland Ellesmere Lyttelton Timaru ... Oamaru ... Waikouaiti Dunedin... Awarua ... "26 31 "l5 1 11 59 a Total 3,763* 3,410 353 * Not ioolu [ding 352 persons, offioers and crews of two British men-of-war,