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the European population is inereasing, and in the future we may see the 
shading of this area becoming lighter. This density of population has in 
the past been protected by the isolation the area enjoyed on account of 
bad roads and comparatively poor country. Passing south, we encounter 
larger towns at Whangarei and Dargaville, with larger white populations, 
thus further reducing the Maori density to 8 and 12-4 respectively. In 
the Auckland district, in spite of a fairly large Maori population of 1,733, 
the huge white population reduces the density to less than 1. Owing to 
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Map of North Island, showing density of Maoris to Europeans, in hospital districts. 
prosperous European settlements, the Waikato district, though containing 
9,234 Maoris, has its density reduced to 11-9 when spread over its very 
large area. 
агаш to the other dense area, in the east, we find that it also has 
enjoyed isolation in the past. Owing to bad roads land-buyers of the 
