POSTPONED CENSUS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 110, 9 April 1934, Page 6

POSTPONED CENSUS.

TEN YEAR INTERVAL. SAVING OF £60,000. (By Telegraph.—Special to Standard-! WELLINGTON, April 9. It was with the object of saving about £60,000 during a time of Budgetary difficulty that the Government decided not to take the usual population census of the Dominion in 1931. The enumeration, according to the Statute, is to be taken every five years, and the last occurred in 1926. Inquiries in official circles indicate that, although the Australian Commonwealth conducted the census as usual last year, there is no intention of following that example in New Zealand. One census was definitely eliminated, and the next is due in 1936, and that date is not to be anticipated. Incidentally, this decision will obviate any disturbance of electoral boundaries, which have to be adjusted in line with the distribution of population as ascertained in the census. There will be a general election, at the latest, in December, 1935, and the census would follow. Its results could not cause any interference with electorates until the succeeding general election.