LAST NIGHT’S CENSUS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 71, Issue 6141, 26 September 1945, Page 5

LAST NIGHT’S CENSUS

’ FIRST SINCE 1936 INCREASED FIGURES ANTICIPATED Last night heads of households spent some time, more or less according to the size of the family or household, and th e conscientiousness of the householder, filling in the census papers. Nine years have passed since last such a task was faced. Despite a good deal of criticism most of it party politics, the schedules did not contain anything of a very contentious nature. The personal schedule was particularly sim'ple, and the only question likely to take time in completing was that referring to the amount of wages earned. In that respect many executives of industries supplied tor caused to be supplied that information to their employees. The latest Year Book gives the population of the borough of Te Awamutu as being 2570 at Ist April, 1941. The area of the borough is 1162 acres approximately. The census t&ken on the night of 25th March, 1936, revealed Te Awamutu’s population as being 2224. In 1941 the population of Waipa county was 12,910, and the area was 435 square miles. In 1936 the population of Waipa county was 12,966. The result of the census taken last night will not be known for several weeks, but it is anticipated that the population figures will be in excess of 3000. That, however, is but .a guess. The following are the figures for the Borough and the County in the years given:— Borough 1911 645 1916 1064 1921 1523 1926 1629 1931 1765 1936 .... 2224 1941 (estimated) .... 2570 County 1911 6971 1916 6864 1921 7806 1926 9344 1931 10425 1936 12966 1941 (estimated) . .. 12910