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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