The Census.

Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 164, 28 January 1896, Page 3

The Census.

The census of New Zealand will be taken for the night of Sunday, 12th April. The Colony has been divided into 33 enumerators' districts, each consisting of a group of contiguous counties with their interior boroughs. The enumerators have divided their districts into subdistricts, for each of which a sub-enumerator has been or is to be selected to distribute and collect the household schedules. There will be about 750 sub -enumerators altogether. Each sub-enumerator will be provided with a map of his district, colored to show all existing territorial divisions, such as electoral districts, counties, ridings, road and town districts, besides boroughs; and the populations of all these will be ascertained. The areas of the sub-enumerators' districts will also be marked off on the maps into small blocks, and the population of these given by the sub-enu-merators, for the purpose of defining new electoral districts for the apportionment of the European representation of the people in Parliament. . The particulars required by the Act respecting the people include—Name, sex, age, married or single, birthplace, religion, occupation, education, whether British subject or alien, if suffering from sickness, accident, or infirmity. The dwellings are also to be described in respect of rooms and material. The intelligent co-operation of every occupier or person in charge of a dwelling-house is earnestly desired to help in bringing to a success the census work by carefully filling up the schedule. The information given in the schedules will only be used for the compilation of statistical returns. Any person divulging it, or making use of it, for another purpose, is liable to a heavy penalty.