COLLECTING THE CENSUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8535, 8 April 1891, Page 6

COLLECTING THE CENSUS.

takes me by surpri. True it mat be and is in a somewl elevated positioj but with a free elevate working from nir« a.m. to five p.m., it is 'ery easy of access, and from its capacious is and quietude ij far more suitable than a ' office in a bustling thoroughfare, or in the rmoil of the todExchange. Indeed, m bers have said had the office been selected ecially for this pur. pose a more-suitable or could not have been found, especially as tl enumerator is not supposed to have muc to do with the outside public, but with lis sub-enumerators and such assistants as 1 may employ in the compilation, and for i is quietude is certainly essential. Tne ppointment, which you suggest, of some ot :r office, with a sup. ply of census schedule for distribution to applicants, is most unne essary, is I am fully satisfied that both in dis ributionand collecting the sub-enumerates are coing their work thoroughly.— am etc., Tiiod Seaman.., 7th April, 1891. GSnsus Enumerator.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, —I regret that, being fully occupied yesterday assisting applicants to nil in their census schedules, 1 did not read the article which appeared in that day's issue of the Herald, headed " The Census of New Zealand" until after my day's work was over ; for had I seen it earlier I should have asked for space in this morning's paper to notice the same. Let me now, however, say first that your suggestion with regard to the squadron riding in our harbour is being carefully carried out, and I am happy in the belief that all my sub-enumerators are faithfully performing their duty ; indeed, I consider myself singularly fortunate in having been able, 1 out of about 120 applicants, to select 85 thoroughly suitable men to act in the work of distributing and collecting the schedules, some of them being gentlemen of high position, whilst all are, from their respectability and intelligence, well adapted for their work. Thinking it possible that in the distribution of about 25,000 schedules throughout the five counties under my charge a few might bo overlooked, I had by paragraphs and advertisements in both the Herald and Star, notified that any householders who might be passed over could obtain schedules on application to myself, either personally or by letter, postage free ; and as the result of such notices I have up to the present time received about 50 applications, comparatively few of those, however, because of not having received schedules, but either to replace such as may have been mislaid or spoiled, or, as in the case of hotel and boarding-house proprietors, requiring additional ones not being aware that on collecting the sub-enumerators would have others to supply. The letter which you insert from a Settler" in Ox-ford-street, Archhill is, I am assured, without foundation, the collector for that, district l having since informed me that he had not left a single house unsupplied, probably the non-employment' on the present occasion of the " Settler," who says he was so engaged in 1886, may have something to do with the complaint. But," Sir, the difficulty referred to in your article as to the unsuitability of the enumerator's | office