TAKING THE CENSUS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 62, 14 March 1911, Page 3

TAKING THE CENSUS.

SOME OF THE PpTAILS,

Arrangements for the taking of [ the census on the 2nd April are nearing completion- (states the Wellington Evening Post). The list of enumerators laf/pointod1 to the .several districts will be gazetted in a few days, Mid the appointments of sub-enumerators and of the persons to distribute and collect census papers will then be made. Altogether about 1100 people Will be employed in carrying out this part of the work, that number being necessary so as to ensure the greatest •expedition and accuracy in the important work of numbering the people. The census paper looks .somewhat formidable, and is to some extent of a seaiching character, .but it should not present any difficulties to the average householder who has an hour or so to spend in making himself familiar with the task before him. All he has to do is to set out in the various columns the names of the people who passed the night of Sunday, 2nd April, under his roof, or arrived there on the Monday morning without having been included elsewhere. Ho must also state their sex, ago last birthday, whether married., widow or widower, divorced or never ing and dead, the occupation of the married, how long he or she has been married,, the number of children living and dead, the occupation of the various inmates, whether they are employers or employees, if they have been unemployed for more than a week, if he or she is totally blind, deaf and dumb, imbecile or feebleminded, the country of birth, the length ov residence in New Zealand, the degree of education, whether receiving education, and if so, at what class of.school. As to religious denominations, the householder must not, he is told, simply describe anyone as a Protestant, Methodist; or Catholic, for instance. He must give the exact title of the denomination to which h<3 belongs, and write against the names of children the religion1 in which it is intended they are to be brought up. If the person is a Freethinker, or of no denomination or religion, he must say so. If he objects to state to what religious denomination he belongs he need only merely write "object." The householder, who is responsible for the filling up of the form, has also to give a description of the dwelling, the amount of rent he pays the number of geese, ducks, fowls, turkeys) or other poultry that he keeps, the number of beehives, and the honey and beeswax produced during the year. Finally he has to sign the declaration:—"l declare that this schedule is correctly filled up to the best of my knowledge and belief."