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shades off to 27. Below Waiapu we have the comparatively large town 
of Gisborne reducing the density of the Cook County to 9-7, but farther 
on Wairoa rises to 64. W 
respectively. On the west coast from Taranaki to Wellington the same 
are the only districts with a density not below 1. For the whole of the 
South Island there are 4 Maoris to 1,000 Europeans. In two Hospital 
Board districts there are 4 to 10,000 whites, and in three districts there are 
none at all. 
When the density falls very low, the opportunities for assimilation by 
intermarriage are increased. 
MIscEGENATION. 
Intermixture between the two races has been going on from the earliest 
days of colonization. Newman held that half-castes were a feeble race, 
tending rapidly to extinction, and with no improved fertility. He produced 
no data to support his statement. I doubt its applicability at the present 
time, but hope to acquire further data on the subject. In the United States 
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than among full-blooded women. Аё the present time there is, in t 
accredited Maori population, a larger percentage with mixed blood than 
we are apt to think. In the census returns half-castes living as Maoris are 
counted with the Maori population, and those living as Europeans are 
correspondingly counted with the European. It would be interesting to 
know what are the exact boundaries of the two modes of living. jeu 
Battalion examined by me in 1919, 48 per cont. had white blood. Of 4,039 
pupils from 94 Native schools the following results were obtained :— 
Race. Number. Percentage. 
Full Maori & а 2,016 49-9 
Maori with white blood d итали 50-1 
4,039 100-0 
