ANOTHER CENSUS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.
POPULATIONS WILL BE COUNTED NEXT APRIL. < United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) * LONDON, November 17. The fourteenth decennial census of the population of England and Wales will be taken on April 26, 1931, savs an Order-in-Council promulgated to-day. The Home Affairs Department has been busy for some months preparing for the even «• Since ISOI, when the first Census was taken, the populations of England. Wales and Scotland have been enumerated under one organisation, but on this occasion Scotland will make her own arrangements. Ireland was included for the Censuses from IS3I to 1911, and the Islands in the British Seas since 1871. At the last Census (1921) the populations were: England and Wales ... '37.885,242 Scotland 4,882,497 Ireland (1911) 4,390,219 Islands 149,852 April 24 was the day selected for the last Census, April being considered a suitable month, as few people are on holiday. The coal strike intervened in that year, and actually the Census took place in June in England and Wales.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19231, 19 November 1930, Page 1
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