CENSUS BY RADIO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22391, 11 April 1936, Page 12

CENSUS BY RADIO

SHEPHERD'S RESOURCE

DETAILS FROM BACK COUNTRY STATISTICIAN'S APPRECIATION [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] BLENHEIM. Friday One of the most interesting sidelights of the census that has come under the notice of the Government Statistician is a return furnished by a sheep station hand in the Marlborough back country by short-wave wireless. This man, Mr. A. J. McKenzie, supervises the back country of the Molesworth station in the locality known as Rainbow, at the headwaters of the Wairau River.

After a fruitless ride over rugged country to get a census paper his horse was knocked up. However, Mr. McKenzie is an amateur wireless enthusiast, and after hearing the schedule read over from station 2YA ho communicated with Mr. J. S. Furness, a Blenheim wireless amateur, giving the necessary data. Mr. Furness filled in a census paper on Mr. McKenxie's behalf. The document then had to be despatched to the postmaster at Waiau, in whose district Rainbow is situated.

It completed a roundabout journey when it reached the Government Statistician, who has written to Mr. Furness praising his and Mr. McKenzie's resourcefulness and initiative, which formed " a refreshing contrast to the casual and indifferent attitude of a section of the population."

MORE RETURNS RECEIVED • COUNTIES AND TOWNS MANY AUCKLAND AREAS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRKSS ASSOCIATION] •WELLINGTON, Thursday Further preliminary census results, supplied by the Census and Statistics Office, are as follows, the correponding figures for 1926 being given in parentheses: — i Matakaoa County.—lß33 (1502); increase, 331. Panmure Township Road "District.— 388 (253); increase, 135. Whangarei Borough.—7ls4 (634.3) j increase, 811. Masterton County.—34l3 (3472); docrease, 59. Dargaville Borough.—2l74 (1979); increase, 195. Glen Eden Town District. —1290 (1069); increase, 223. Whangaroa County. —2533 (1840); increase, 693. Stratford County.—s323 (5284); increase 39. Wairarapa South County.—2999 (3232); decrease, 233. Dannevirke Borough.—43B7 (4261); in-

crease 126* * Ormondville Town District. —268 (297); decrease, 29. Te Kuiti Borough.—24B6 (2434); increase, 52. Bruce County. —442-5 (4526) . decrease, 101. Inangahua County.—3B97 (3529); increase, 368. Eltham County (excluding Kaponga Town District). —3181 (3091); increase, 90. Wanganui City.—23,168 (23,683); decrease, 515. Manunui Town District.—77s (912); decrease, 137. Ohura Town District. —458 (275); increase, 183. Woodville Borough.—lo3o (1089); decrease, 59. Marton 80r0ugh.—2736 (2720); increase, 16. Raetihi Borough.—llß2 (1127); increase, 55. Pohangina County.—l34o (1311); increase, 29. Tauranga Borough.—33B9 (2549); in-

crease. 840. Mount Maunganui Town District.—49l, constituted since 1926 census. Warkworth Town District.—63o (437); increase, 193. Timaru 80r0ugh.—17,428 (15,507); increase. 1921. Foxton Borough.—l6l3 (1760); decrease, 147. 1 Paeron Borough.—2l47 (1833); increase 314. Te Karaka Town District.—3ss (369); decrease, 14. Mackenzie County.—3lso (3155); decrease, 5. Mataura Borough.—lsoo (1236), increase, 264. THE COOK ISLANDS CENSUS TO BE TAKEN SOON [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Friday The Cook Islands census regulations have been gazetted, and provide for a census being taken in the Cook Islands on April 30.