THE CENSUS

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 168, 19 February 1896, Page 3

THE CENSUS

It -ensus of Now Zealand which will £ ,- 'V".' the mght of Sunday, April 12, I- ?? effected on a more elaborate scale i •Aorta From a paper forwarded R llszen, we find that the colony has K divided into 33 enumerator's districts ' tin" of "roups of contiguous counn9S These are again divided into sub- >*•.,. (1 f which there will be about 730. uLrficulars required by the Act re- ,.,,«■ the people include name, "'',r(> married or single, birthplace, y' •E? occupation, education, whether v"h 'subject or alien, if suffering U dekness, accident, or infirmity. The Wifaffg are also to be described in re--11 ui rooms and material. Besides ' information as to the population, I*. „ireturns will be collected relating manufactories, or works to colony, g' v ' n g particulars as to ' and power employed, value [materials operated on, produce or nfacture, value of land and buildings aehiiiery, and plant. Further, returns sXces of worship, land and building folios, literary and scientific institu- - &e.. will "also be collected by "uinerfltors from information supplied " gub-oiiunicrators. There is a penal- ! of twenty pounds for " wilfully Rasing or neglecting to fill up, sign, i deliver the fonu, or to answer the i <<;irv inquiries which the Enumera--1 - and" Sub- enumerators are authorised S required to make, or for furnishing Ise returns or answers, or for obstruci g nll y person in the performance of J duty imposed on him by the Census ,]" It must, therefore, be remembered i g UD .enumerators ha>e defined pow- ■ g f demanding the schedules, and of tin" questions of occupiers of houses obtain complete returns. The innuation given in the Schedule will ilv be used for the compilation of statical returns. Any person divulging ■matin" use of it for another purpose liable to a heavy penalty. When the ■act number of the people in every diBion of the colony has been fixed, a rtificate of the same will be given to e Commissioners under the llcpresentinn Act, with the particulars for each the vast number of small blocks of rritory before referred to, so that new pitonites may be defined on a popu-