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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 Otago Region

Urban Population
Town	1911	1936	1951	1961	1961 Maoris
Oamaru	5,152	7,487	8,119	12,429	33
Milton	1,347	1,432	1,672	1,922	4
Kaitangata	1,567	1,375	1,247	1,249	11
Balclutha	1,261	1,546	2,624	3,935	27
Alexandra	772	871	1,414	2,296	..
Dunedin region	79,669	94,806	103,208	112,687	406
Total	89,768	107,517	118,282	134,518	481

Cows in Milk
County		Cows in Milk		Dairy Cows in Milk per 100 Sheep Shorn 1960
	1921–22	1951–52	1959–60
Waitaki	9,287	5,141	3,113	0·34
Waihemo	1,447	754	463	0·24
Bruce	5,694	4,702	2,914	0·57
Clutha	9,057	5,368	4,168	0·40
Tuapeka	3,210	1,584	950	0·12
Vincent	1,503	1,793	1,034	0·19
Maniototo	1,210	885	580	0·11
Dunedin region	15,816	11,406	10,146	1·93
Total	47,224	31,633	23,368

County Population
County	1911	1936	1951	1961	1961 Maoris
Waitaki	10,079	10,460	10,406	11,321	177
Waihemo	2,439	2,118	2,015	1,871	13
Bruce	4,835	4,426	3,830	3,981	26
Clutha	7,266	7,302	5,825	6,118	65
Tuapeka	7,416	6,371	7,764	6,876	33
Vincent	4,321	5,639	5,036	4,950	5
Maniototo	3,122	3,330	2,865	2,949	6
Total county	39,478	39,646	37,741	38,066	325
Total region	129,246	147,163	156,023	172,549	708

Land Occupation
County	Average Area of Holdings 1960	Area Occupied 1960
	acres	acres
Waitaki	1,243	1,389,611
Waihemo	1,249	237,240
Bruce	575	310,194
Clutha	579	522,189
Tuapeka	1,330	856,543
Vincent	2,828	1,546,987
Maniototo	3,085	919,247
Dunedin region	731	773,325

Co-creator

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