RELIGION

355

Excluding Chinese, 61 "80 per cent, were immarried ; 34*21 per cent, married ; and 3 '99 widowers or widows.

In 1911, 550,000 (54-97 percent.) were dependents; 131,000 (12-95 per cent.) agricultural, pastoral, mineral, and other primary producers; 134,000 (13-24 per cent.) industrial ; 102,000 (10-13 per cent.) commercial ; 44,000 (4-39 per cent.) domestic; 33,000 (3-25 per cent.) professional; and 10,000 (1'07 per cent.) indefinite occupation.

Movement of the Population.

Years

1907 1908 1909 1910 1911

Total Births

25,094' 25,940 26,524 25,984 26,354

Illegitimate Births

1,157 1,105 1,223 1,162 1,078

Deaths

10,066 9,043 8,95S 9,639 9,534

Marriages

~8,192 8,339 8,094 8,236

8,825

j Excess of Births over Deaths

■15,028

16,897

I 17,565 16,345 I 16,820

Birth-rate, 1911, 25 "97 per 1,000 persons living; death-rate 9-39 per 1,000 ; marriage-rate, 8-70.

Immigration and Emigration.

Years

1907 1908 1909 1910 1911

Immigi-ants

Emigrants

Excess of Immigration over Emigration

36,108 44,970 38,650 35,769 41,389

30,378 30,709 33,931 32,361 37,189

5,730 14,261 4,719 3,408 4,200

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 and three bishops.

Number

,

Number

of

of

Number

churches

Number

churches

Denomination

of clergy

and Chapels,

Denomination

of clergy

and chapels.

July, 1912

&c. Census ,

I 1 1

July, 1912

•fee. Census

1911 ' 796

' 1

1911

Church of England

421

Baptist . . i

47

55

Presbyterian

333

709 i

Other Christian

Roman Catholic .

221

358

bodies .

153

321

Methodist bodies .

217

583

Plebrew .

6

5

Congregational

34

32

Total .

1,432

2,859 ~

In 1911, 41-14 per cent, of the population (exclusive of Maoris) belonged to the Church of England, 23-32 were Presbyterians, 9*43 per cent. Methodists, other Protestant sects being Baptists, Independents, Lutherans, Friends, and Unitarians. The total Protestants numbered 808,801, and Roman Catholics and Catholics undefine.d, 140,523 or 13*97 per cent, of the population. There were 2,128 Jews, 1,501 Pagans, and 35,905 who objected to state their religion.

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