(2) Population at census of 15 October 1916

Deducing our District's population involves some manipulating of the figures for outlying localities. Undoubtedly within our defined District are Kaponga town district, 397; Kaponga (vicinity), 304; and Rowan, 98. A family or two of Riverlea's 134 in the Eltham County will have been outside our District, to the west along Eltham Road so we will reduce the figure to 120. All Riverlea's 35 Waimate West folk will have been within the boundaries. Kapuni's figures show 49 in Eltham County and 399 in Waimate West. Many of these will have been on the lower sections of Mangawhero, Rowan and Palmer roads, and on Manaia Road between Kapuni and Kaponga, and so come within the District. (For these folk we treat Kapuni as an outlier of Kaponga, for those on or south of Skeet Road as an outlier of Manaia.) We will take one-third of these figures, i.e. 149, as belonging to Kaponga District. We have a similar situation with Mahoe (22 in Eltham County, 176 in Stratford County). We estimate that half of these would be folk on upper Palmer Road and on Opunake Road west of Mahoe, and so credit our District with 99. This gives a total of 1202.