[?]nto their Religion

[?]iueans Get Variety [?]nto their Religion

lUE Island’s population showed little change between the cen suses of 1951 and 1956, as the lit of a steady emmigration to i Zealand. This is shown in the st Annual Report, just pub ed. t the time of the 1951 census, island had a native population 4,643 and last year the figure 4,650. Emmigration has been nly limited by available trans ition and the numbers depart in recent years have been as >ws: 1952, 120; 1953, 59; 1954, 1955, 179; and 1956, 207, or a 1 of 642 departures over the ius period. le Report says that a number Jiueans do return home after a od, but does not make it quite r whether the figure of 642 is 3t loss or whether some of that iber returned. le European population in the e period was reduced from 57 :5, though these figures are of real significance as they would ide temporary residents on the ective census days. >r reasons not indicated in the ;us returns covering religious iations, the 602 persons acknow ed no religious label in 1951, in number in 1956 to a mere the interim most of this un

attached group seem to have be come Latter Day Saints and Catho lics, both new to this mission field since 1951.

Figures for the various denomina tions as of 1956, with those of 1951 in brackets, are as follows: LMS

(Congregational), 4,188 (3,886) •

Roman Catholic, 83 (11); Latter- Day Saints, 360 (nil); Seventh Day Adventist, 13 (5); Wesleyan, 2 (nil); Methodist, nil (3); Presby terian, 1 (1); Church of England, 1, (1); not stated, 2 (602).

The figures are for Niueans only.