AUCKLAND, New Zealand, a province forming the northern part of North Island, and with an area of 25,746 square miles. Auckland, a city and capital of the province, and formerly capital of New Zealand, is situated on the northeast coast of North Island at the mouth of an arm of Hauraki Gulf, 1,350 miles from Sydney, Australia. It stands upon a cluster of extinct volcanoes. In the city and its suburbs there are evidences of as many as 63 points of eruption, making the narrow ithmus a fruitful field for the study of volcanic formations. It has two excellent harbors, one at Waitemata and one six miles distant at Manukan on the opposite side of the isthmus. The former is one of the finest in New Zealand. There are numerous wharves and two graving docks, one of which, the Calliope dock, opened in 1887, is one of the largest in the south seas, admitting 10,000-ton steamers. Connected by steamer with Australia, South Africa, Great Britain, San Francisco and the Pacific Islands and by rail with the chief towns of the island, the city has a large and increasing trade, valued at about $40,000,000 annually; 361 vessels of 856,317 tons burden entered and 241 of 554,815 tons cleared the port in 1913. The site is fine and
there are numerous handsome public buildings, including churches, fine schools, an excellent public library containing the Grey collection of manuscripts, a museum and the Auckland Uni versity College. Chief manufacturing interests are ship-building yards, sugar refineries, rope factories, boiler works, etc. Its lumber in dustry, taking advantage of the wide rivers down which logs can be floated, is a very pros porous one, as is also its trade in Kauri gum. The government is municipal. For the year 1917, the municipal electric plant showed a good increase, selling 1,872,938 units valued at $75, 168, as compared with 1,601,292 units, value $63,795, for 1916. There is a United States con sulate here. Pop. (1911) with suburbs, 102,676; (1913) 113,334.