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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

Urban Population
Town	1911	1936	1951	1961	1961 Maoris
Thames	3,591	4,268	4,551	5,315	243
paeroa	1,416	2,149	2,590	2,894	238
Waihi	6,436	3,916	3,891	3,164	129
Total	11,443	10,333	11,032	11,373	610

County Population
County	1911	1936	1951	1961	1961 Maoris
Coromandel	2,732	2,635	2,622	2,826	351
Thames	4,388	2,795	2,933	3,205	438
Ohinemuri	4,628	3,335	3,438	4,161	585
Total County	11,748	8,765	8,933	10,192	1,374
Total region	23,191	19,098	20,025	21,565	1,984

Cows in Milk
County		Cows in Milk		Dairy Cows in Milk per 100 Sheep Shorn
	1921–22	1951–52	1959–60	1960
Coromandel	2,276	8,502	9,068	11.80
Thames	4,972	11,642	12,071	31.33
Ohinemuri	7,271	23,302	20,012	29.46
Total	14,519	43,446	41,151	..

Land Occupation
County	Average Area of Holdings	Area Occupied
	1960	1960
	Acres	Acres
Coromandel	635	202,036
Thames	402	132,230
Ohinemuri	204	84,725

Co-creator

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