SCHOOL CONTINGENTS

Evening Star, Issue 19229, 21 April 1926, Page 4

SCHOOL CONTINGENTS

THE CENSUS ARRANGEMENTS EACH CHILD FILLS UP FBBH Asked by a ‘ Star ’ representative this morning what arrangements were made with regard to recording for census purposes, the names, etc., of the 720 and odd school children from North Canterbury and the Palmerston North Technical School at present visiting 'Dunedin, Mr C. A. Stvack (general manager of the Education Court! stated that Mr W. 11’. Eowntree (bend master of tho Richmond School, Christchurch) acted as census officer for the contingents. Each child had to fill in and sign its individual census paper—• the first time that children have had to do this —and a “ dwelling schedule ” was filled in for each billet. Tire individual schedules, ho explained, are to be returned to the census officers of the respective districts from which tiu» children come, and tho children will nil Iro credited to their own districts. “ They arc trying to do Dunedin out of its legitimate ‘floating population,’ ” remarked a good Dunedin citizen, who was standing by and also heard the statement.

The task of taking the census, said Mr Strnek, in conclusion, caused much less trouble than tlio teachers anticipated, though ho showed our reporter the piles of census papers on his desk waiting to he sent away.