Census Shows Population
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Gain In Cooks
A COUNT of the heads in the Cook Islands on September 25, 1956, showed a total population for the 14 islands in the group of 16,680. The figure was made up of 8,695 males and 7,985 females.
Estimated population in 1954 was 15,657.
Figures for the individual islands were; Rarotonga, 7,212; Aitutaki, 2,565; Mangaia, 1,970; Atiu, 1,307; Mauke, 815; Mitiaro, 275; Manuae, 32; Palmerston, 77; Pukapuka, 638 Nassau, 110; Manihiki, 66; Raka hanga, 341; Penrhyn, 619; Suwa warrow, 58.
Suwarrow has since been evacuated, the majority having gone to Manihiki. Suwarrow, with
Manuae, has an indigenous settled population.
The Nassau population of copra gatherers varies considerably.
The total of 16,680 included 75 per sons aboard the Charlotte Donald, which was at sea at the time of the census. These were listed under Rarotonga’s population.
t Semesa Seruvatu. who toured Australia in 1952 and 1954 with the Fiji Rugby Union football team is at present playing in the Newcastle area in New South Wales.
Semesa, an Assistant Medical Practitioner, is doing a four months' post-graduate study at Royal Newcastle Hospital.