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Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



of the New Zealand Institute," vol. xxix., 1896, pp. 52-60. As 

 these, however, only extend to the age of seventy-five, I have 

 been obliged to fall back for ages beyond this on the English 

 tables of Dr. W. Ogle. The effect of this may be to produce 

 an error, which, however, will not be a very substantial one, 

 on account of the small proportion of our people over seventy- 

 fivo years of age, and none of the arguments in the sequel can 

 be materially affected by any probable error that can arise on 

 this account. The results in the table were calculated for 

 each year of age, but, for the sake of brevity, are presented 

 here grouped in five-year age-periods. Those of unspecified 

 ages are left out of account, as also those over 100 years of 

 age; but only a very small number of people are thus 

 neglected. 



Table II. — Comparison op Actual Age-distribution with Stationary 



State for New Zealand. 



The total population for a stationary state corresponding 

 to 20,000 births annually — namely, 1,109,563 — should be 

 noted. This means that, if the annual number of births in 

 New Zealand were to reach 20,000 and remain at that figure, 

 the total population would only reach about 1,110,000. The 

 common birth-rate and death-rate would be 1803. 



