1170 People In Tokelau Group
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From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Jan. 21.
CENSUS returns for the Tokelau (or Union) Islands, administered by the Samoan Administration from Apia, but not Included in the Mandate, show a population on November 4, 1936, of 1170, composed of 568 males and 602 females.
The increase since the last census in 1926 amounts to about 150, or 13 per cent.
The Tokelau Islands, only about 300 miles north of Samoa, lie away from all steamer routes and are only occasionally visited by a warship or a trading schooner from Apia. Apart from about a dozen people of mixed descent, there are no Europeans living in the group. There are now two wireless stations, at Faka ofo and Nukunono, in operation, which are worked by natives.
The Islanders are mostly adherents of the London Mission Society, though about 400 of them are Roman Catholics. Both Missions maintain schools for native children.