THE CENSUS

Evening Star, Issue 11512, 1 April 1901, Page 4

THE CENSUS

AU King Edward's subjects, with the exception of those residing in Tndin, where for climatic reasons the count has already br.cn made, nnd'in South Africa, where, owing to the war, it stands postponed, begun last night to make up the most comprehensive census return ever ordered. Tt is snfo to say that during the last twenty-four hour? more persons have used pen and ink than in any day the world lias previously seen, and when the. mighty reckoning is brought to a single total the other Empires will look on with perhaps even more respect than thoy now feel for the all-conquering Union .Tack, the flag of the people! New Zealand, as the easternmost dependency, began first. Our ' population at the 1896 census was 705,008 exclusive of Maoris, ah increase of 76,350 by comparison with the census of 1891. We may expect 800,000 this time. Mr C. C. Graham is the enumerator for the district that includes Dunetlin. His duty is to get account of all persons residing within the counties of Taieri, Waikouojti, and Peninsula. That area is for census purposes divided into fifty-three subdistricts, to each pf which a subennmerator is appointed. The census forms are fairly simple, and the officials have so far, we understand, had comparatively few calls made upon them for assistance. In about a. week's time- we may hope for a rough idea of the returns in some of the more easily-reached districts.