POPULATION OF CITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10586, 15 October 1910, Page 1

POPULATION OF CITIES.

By Telegrap'h.' i r ' (Special 'to the Oa-maru Mail ) Wellington, "Oetobei 14 Speaking on the vote ot £9344 ior the Registiai-General's Deplaitmcnt, Mr J. P Luke, in Qommittee on the Estimates, to-daj asked on what svstem "the editor of the Year Book proceeded vthen gioiipmg boioughs foi m elusion in the big \ centies Wh,\ should the subuibs of Devonpoii and Noithcote, acioss Aifckland haiboi, be included in that cftv 9 The-Mimster, franklj confessed "that the pioblem beat him " He believed, he said, that local conditions governed the grouping Theie was one instance vvheie a boiough. seven miles"distant 'fiom i a big centre was included, and uglitl.v so. ' 3lr J L Arnold (Dunedin) urged the foi some fan basis of computing the population of cities. In view of the far-ieaclnng distncts Included in Auckland, he said Poit Chalmeis ought to be included in Dunedm. —The Census Period Mi C A. C Hard} (Selwvn) lnqimed in the House to-daj if the Minister favoied taking a census every'ten yeais instead of ilive The Mimstei l-ephed that next census would take place on 'the first or second {Monday in Apnl. It w J as too earlv to consider anv change Mi Wilford (Hutt) said that he was against a census only once m a decade because the public conscience would not 1 be sufficiently awakened to the fact that rate was top low. —A Private Secietarj.—

Mr Massej, Leader of the Opposition, "once" had a pnvate Secretaiv, 'but this session- he has been without such an aid. ' , Mr F. M., fe. Fisher asked the "Minister of Internal Affairs to-day "whether he * would - next year < prb- ■ vide, a vote for "a Secretaiy to the Leader of" the Opposition. A time had to be occupied hy Mr Massey as a private .member, and the amount o£ public business lie transacted as Leader of the jOpppsition was enoimous. The Minister seems to/regaid Ithe matter as, a joke/' concluded Mr Fisher, but I, would like to.teuVhinv that in Canada the Leader of the, Opposition, 111 the* Dominion Parliament gets £IOOO a year. , > ; "•' Mr Witty. What about the Leader, of the-Independent Labor Party p >v He 'ought to. get one. ' The Hon. D. Buddo Yes, that's, so.' The whole House will take the matter into considei ation <