CENSUS TONIGHT

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 306, 25 September 1945, Page 6

CENSUS TONIGHT

Co-operation Of People

Required

Detailed information about every living person and every dwelling in New Zealand at midnight tonight is to be recorded on census schedules, which are required to be filled in ready for collection by officials tomorrow. Every occupier or person in charge of a dwelling must furnish a properly completed dwelling schedule, and, in addition, see that a properly completed personal schedule is . furnished for every person, including infants, who lives in the dwelling today or arrives at or returns to the dwelling tomorrow without being included in the census elsewhere. Collectors, or •sub-enumerators, are authorized to verify facts by inquiry and make necessary corrections or additions to schedules. If additional privacy is desired, however, personal schedules, when properly completed, may be enclosed in an envelope and sealed. The census district number, sub-district number and schedule number and the name of the person must be written on the face of the envelope. Envelopes so sealed may not be opened either by the occupier of the dwelling or by the sub-enumerator. The census is taken under the authority of the Census and Statistics Act, 1926, which provides penalties for neglect or refusal to supply information and for false statements. “The success of a census requires the active co-operation of the whole of the people, and it is hoped that this aid will be freely given by nil,” says the Government statistician, Mr, J. W. Butcher.