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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 Marlborough Region

Urban Population
Town	1911	1936	1951	1961	1961 Maoris
Picton	1,361	1,381	1,924	2,315	99
Blenheim	3,771	5,036	7,051	11,956	125
Kaikoura	408	703	1,281	1,328	7
Total	5,540	7,120	10,256	15,599	231

Land Occupation
County	Average Area of Holdings 1960	Area Occupied 1960
	acres	acres
Sounds	1,055	193,107
Marlborough	829	663,544
Awatere	4,547	972,968
Kaikoura	2,089	532,802

County Population
County	1911	1936	1951	1961	1961 Maoris
Sounds	1,181	1,073	946	857	69
Marlborough	8,056	7,787	8,475	7,958	343
Awatere	1,535	1,783	1,566	1,739	16
Kaikoura	1,518	1,699	1,878	1,804	68
Total county	12,290	12,342	12,865	12,358	496
Total region	17,830	19,462	23,121	27,957	727

Cows in Milk
County	Cows in Milk			Dairy Cows in Milk per 100 Sheep Shorn 1960
	1921–22	1951–52	1959–60
Sounds	1,530	435	222	0·17
Marlborough	8,291	8,121	7,167	1·39
Awatere	1,264	640	313	0·11
Kaikoura	3,807	4,713	4,206	1·81
Total	14,892	13,909	11,908	..

Co-creator

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