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and "sixties." The wonder is that extinction was still being argued about 
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In the following table the figures for the earlier years are estimates. 
The lowest ebb appears to have been reached in 1871, with another serious 
drop in 1896. 
Table 1.—Population. 
| 
| Authority. Year. | Population. у герен 
Captain ОКЕ. ү ‚. | 1169-74 | 100,000 
| (400,000) 
Nicholas .. us ey: is 1814 | 150,000 | 
Rev. W. Williams (estimate) .. vd 1835 | 200,000 | 
: 1840 | 114,000 
Governor Grey съ i aa 1849 | 120,000 
Mr. McLéan ге 5. ..| 1853 | 60, | 
Judge Fenton a x 2| 1808 55,970 
i Ў. | ..| 1867 | 38,540 
EU nM Government 5 | 387 | 45,470 
= p ..| 1800 | 41,993 
t = ..| 1896 | 39,854 
Colonial Government (proper census) . . 1906 | 47,731 , In. 4,630 
» e = 1911 | 49,844 In. 2,113 
е 2 J| 3916 | 49,776 | De. 68 
Re 5 zi 1921 | 52,751 | In. 2,975 
population at the low figure of 30,000. Twenty-five years later what should 
have been a remnant had reached the healthy figures of over 48,000. Arch- 
deacon Walsh held that no reliance could be placed in the figures until the 
census of 1906. Here proper house-to-house visits were made by properly 
qualified enumerators, and the assistance of intelligent and trustworthy 
Maori with local knowledge was obtained. Не considered that previous 
the present rate of declension continues it must soon reach the vanishing- 
point." The next census, in 1911, taken by the same system which gained 
1s concerned. 
