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saiy to convert them into percentages. This I have done, 

 and the result is exhibited in Table I., which gives, for each 

 of the four chief provincial districts and for each age-period, 

 the percentage of the whole population of the district included 

 in the several age-periods. The like results for the whole 

 colony are also added. 



Table I. 



Percentages of Population of New Zealand and Four Chief Provinces 

 in Quinquennial Age-periods. 



This table is illustrated graphically in Plate XLII. 



While the age-distribution in the provincial districts re- 

 semble one another and that for the colony far more neai'ly 

 than they resemble that of most other countries, still they 

 have differences which are of interest. 



In some ways these differences are more clearly exhibited 

 by considering the excess or defect, as compared with the 

 whole colony, of the percentages in the several age-periods for 

 the several provincial districts. These excesses and defects 

 are exhibited in Table II. in the form of percentages. The 

 table gives, for each district and each age-period, the per- 

 centage of excess or defect of the number of people, actually 

 included in the age-period, over or below what the number 

 would be if the same total population of the district had the 

 same age-distribution as the colony as a whole. 



