CENSUS SIDELIGHT.
-A UNIQUE RETURN. Per Press Association. BLENHEIM,* April 10. One of the most interesting sidelights of the census that has conic under the notice of ’the Government Statistician is the return furnished by a sheep station hand of the Marlborough hinterland' by short-wave wireless. This man, A. J. McKenzie, supervises the back country of the Molesworth Station in a locality known as Rainbow, at the’ headwaters of the Wairau River. After a fruitless ride over rugged country to get a census paper Ins horse knocked up. However, Mr McKenzie is an amateur wireless enthusiast, and after hearing the schedule read over 2YA he communicated with Mr J. S. Furness, a Blenheim wireless amateur, giving the necessary data. Mr Furness filled in a census paper on Mr McKenzie’s behalf. This unique document then had to be dispatched to the postmaster at Waiau, in whose district Rainbow is. It completed a round-about journey when it reached the Government Statistician, who has written to Mi Furness praising the resourcefulness ol the two men in initiative w’hich formed “a refreshing contrast to the casual and indifferent attitude of a section ol the population.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 112, 13 April 1936, Page 2
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191CENSUS SIDELIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 112, 13 April 1936, Page 2
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