Possibly with an eye to future elections, Dr Thacker put the following question to the Minister for Internal Affairs in the House of Representatives last week Whether, in the assessment of the last census return, and in view of the redistribution of Parliamentary seats, he reckoned on the following facts: (1) That on the night of the census an expeditionary reinforcement was leaving Wellington, and some two thousand extra people were in Wellington; and (2) that the persons on Somes Island were added to the Wellington list of census names. In a note Dr Thacker adds;—By: last census return "Christchurch fell from second to third city in this .Dominion, becoming third to Wellington second. For Children’s Hacking Cough at night. Woods' Great Peppermint Core, l/C.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9755, 3 September 1917, Page 8
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