Census, April, 1906.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1985, 23 April 1906, Page 5

Census, April, 1906.

PRELIMINARY REMARKS. The census will be taken for the night of Sunday, the 29th April. The colony has been divided into Enumerator's Districts, each consisting of a group of contiguous counties interior boroughs. The Enumerators have divided their districts into sub-districts, for each of which a Sub-enumerator has been or is to be selected to distribute and collect the household schedules. There will be about nine, hundred Subenumerators altogether. Each Subenumerator will be provided with a map of his district, colored to show all existing territorial divisions, such as electoral districts, counties, ridings, road, and town districts, besides boroughs; and the populations of all these will be ascertained. The areas of the Sub-enumerators' districts will also be marked off on the maps into small blocks, and the population of these given by the Sub-enumerators, for the purpose of defining new elector districts for the apportionment of the European representation of the people in Parliament. ■■> CO-OPERATION OF THE PEOPLE EARNESTLY INVITED. POWERS OF SUB-ENUME-RATORS, <kc. The intelligent co-operation of every occupier or person in charge of a dwellinghouse is earnestly desired to help in making a success of the Census work by carefully filling up 'the schedule. There is, indeed, a penalty of twenty pounds for " wilfully refusing or neglecting to fill up, sign, and deliver the form, or to answer the necessary enquiries which the Enumerators and Sub-enumerators are authorised and required to make, or for furnishing false returns or answers, or for obstructing any person in the performance of any duty imposed on him by the Census Act." But it is hoped that proceedings at law will be found unnecessary, or, at any rate, only needed in most exceptional cases. It must, however, be remembered that Sub-enumerators have defined powers of demanding the schedules, and of asking questions of occupiers of houses to obtain complete returns. The information given in the schedule will be used only for the compilation of statistical returns. Any person divulging or making use of it for another purpose is liable to a heavy penalty,