Shows Steady Increase
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Cook Is. Population Shows Steady Increase
rPHERE were 626 more males than fe- JL males in the 15 islands of the Cook Group on March 31, this year.
Cook Island natives were estimated to total 14,570, consisting of 7,598 males and 6,972 females.
Listed as Europeans were 152 males and 99 females, giving New Zealand’s northern outposts a total of 14,821 people.
The 1936 census gave a total of 12,246.
Rarotonga (which is not an atoll and is the only island in the group with abun dant streams of running water), now has an estimated population of 5,823 on its 16,500 acres—an increase of about 800 on the 1936 population figure.
Cook Island populations for 1947 were as follows:
Acres Aitutaki .. .. 3,900 2,458 Mangaia . . .. . . 17,500 1,901 Atiu . . .. . . .. 6,950 1,268 Malike . . . . 886 Penrhyn .. . . .. 4,000 679 Pukapuka ..
Rakahanga .. . . 1,250 . . . . 1,000 673 322 Manihiki .. .. . . 1,250 455 Mitiaro . . . . 2,500 261 Palmerston .. .. 1,000 64 Manuae .. .. .. 1,524 28 Suwarrow .. ... 600 3 Nassau .. .. ... 300 Takutea ... 302 Rarotonga . . 16,500 5,823