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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 Southland Region

Urban Population
Town 1911 1936 1951 1961 1961 Maoris
Queenstown 696 931 1,008 1,321 3
Gore 3,258 4,635 5,551 7,270 45
Mataura 1,199 1,500 1,715 2,085 61
Winton 564 877 1,133 1,473 ..
Invercargill 14,170 22,494 28,074 35,605 365
Bluff 1,780 2,038 2,251 3,042 159
Riverton 936 908 1,018 1,225 8
Total 22,603 33,383 40,745 52,021 641
Cows in Milk
County Cows in Milk Dairy Cows in Milk per 100 Sheep Shorn
1921–22 1951–52 1959–60 1960
Lake 1,016 845 524 0.16
Southalnd 52,119 37,788 21,555 0.54
Wallace 13,555 10,628 6,575 0.47
Fiord .. .. .. ..
Stewart Island 77 33 15 0.61
Total 66,767 49,294 28,669 ..
County Population
County 1911 1936 1951 1961 Maoris 1961
Lake 2,364 2,904 1,854 2,011 3
Southland 26,460 28,243 26,545 30,619 433
Wallace 9,422 11,238 10,547 11,591 119
Fiord 42 19 29 51 6
Stewart Island 325 617 576 542 84
Total county 38,613 43,021 39,551 44,814 645
Total region 61,216 76,404 80,296 96,835 1,286
Land Occupation
County Average Area of Holdings 1960 Area Occupied 1960
acres acres
Lake 8,085 1,511,914
Southland 516 2,087,429
Wallace 924 1,178,344
Fiord .. ..
Stewart Island 345 17,926

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

  • New Zealand Geographer, Vol. 7, Apr 1951, “Pastoral Murihiku”, Critchfield, H. J.
  • Economic Geography, Vol. 30, Oct 1954, “The Growth of Pastoralism in Southland”
  • N.Z. Journal of Agriculture, Vol. 88, Aug 1949, “Farming in New Zealand – Southland”, Stuart, A.
Co-creator
Samuel Harvey Franklin, B.COM.GEOG., M.A.(BIRMINGHAM), Senior Lecturer, Geography Department, Victoria University of Wellington.