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This information was published in 1966 in An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock. It has not been corrected and will not be updated.

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Statistics of the Canterbury Region

Urban Population
Town	1911	1936	1951	1961	1961 Maoris
Rangiora	1,834	2,239	2,799	3,540	14
Kaiapoi	1,823	1,598	2,246	3,110	62
Christchurch region	91,509	138,065	179,724	227,511	1,647
Ashburton	2,671	5,683	8,287	11,602	39
Geraldine	945	957	1,080	1,832	..
Temuka	1,741	1,911	2,212	2,431	53
Timaru	11,280	17,397	21,209	24,816	98
Waimate	1,762	2,315	2,907	3,310	4
Total	113,565	170,165	220,464	278,151	1,917

County Population
County	1911	1936	1951	1961	1961 Maoris
Amuri	1,695	2,674	2,643	2,940	39
Cheviot	1,383	1,387	1,354	1,532	20
Waipara	1,966	2,734	2,476	2,927	5
Kowai	2,080	2,078	1,937	2,220	6
Ashley	710	803	655	665	12
Rangiora	2,888	3,313	3,418	3,785	292
Eyre	1,872	1,896	1,812	1,876	13
Oxford	1,867	1,702	1,580	1,586	5
Tawera	1,241	938	742	751	15
Malvern	3,458	3,033	3,123	4,255	170
Banks region Peninsula	3,767	2,715	2,951	2,625	97
Springs	1,891	1,847	2,202	2,625	4
Ellesmere	3,773	3,897	3,599	3,699	29
Selwyn	1,267	1,624	1,592	1,703	5
Ashburton	12,313	13,708	11,218	11,607	17
Geraldine	5,471	5,937	5,536	5,149	126
Levels	5,319	5,557	5,236	5,731	35
Mackenzie	2,341	3,158	4,033	3,310	11
Waimate	6,730	7,234	6,000	6,058	43
Total county	62,032	66,235	62,107	65,044	944
Total region	175,597	236,400	282,571	343,195	2,861

Cows in Milk
County		Cows in Milk		Dairy Cows in Milk per 100 Sheep Shorn 1960
	1921–22	1951–52	1959–60
Amuri	918	715	637	0.14
Cheviot	1,231	649	413	0.17
Waipara	1,294	1,136	955	0.19
Kowai	2,044	2,100	1,661	1.10
Ashley	688	361	336	0.28
Rangiora	4,711	4,540	4,559	4.90
Eyre	2,945	2,562	2,850	2.33
Oxford	1,572	1,566	1,520	0.93
Tawera	633	448	425	0.35
Malvern	1,744	935	637	0.23
Banks Peninsula region	8,994	6,478	4,808	2.23
Springs	2,983	4,073	4,428	6.30
Ellesmere	5,494	5,229	4,646	2.80
Selwyn	927	669	579	0.19
Ashburton	10,050	6,200	5,133	0.29
Geraldine	8,526	6,923	6,541	1.19
Levels	4,747	3,877	2,899	0.73
Mackenzie	1,536	967	609	0.10
Waimate	6,209	4,247	3,211	0.33
Christchurch region	12,269	10,398	8,706	4.80
Total	79,515	64,143	55,553	..

Land Occupation
County	Average Area of Holdings 1960	Area Occupied 1960
	acres	acres
Amuri	3,614	831,249
Cheviot	940	199,235
Waipara	1,279	483,502
Kowai	406	103,489
Ashley	1,125	154,063
Rangiora	157	54,337
Eyre	357	94,893
Oxford	707	144,840
Tawera	4,872	336,155
Malvern	433	145,126
Banks Peninsula region	512	189,559
Springs	211	51,187
Ellesmere	275	114,849
Selwyn	1,652	380,031
Ashburton	819	1,341,089
Geraldine	588	436,847
Levels	262	156,058
Mackenzie	4,302	1,484,136
Waimate	801	762,891
Christchurch region	161	156,592

Co-creator

Samuel Harvey Franklin, B.COM.GEOG., M.A.(BIRMINGHAM), Senior Lecturer, Geography Department, Victoria University of Wellington.