THE CENSUS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 2607, 8 April 1926, Page 4

THE CENSUS

MIDNIGHT ON 'APRIL 20. THE ARRANGEMENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.), WELLINGTON, April 7. The quinquennial census this year will be taken on the night of Tuesday, April 20. All persons travelling that night will be required to supply census schedules where they are at. mid* night. Persons travelling by the Main Trunk train and passengers on the Wellington-Lyttelton f'errv and Nelson steamers, as well as those ton other steamers that night, will be chiefly affected. For the convenience of such passengers the census office advises that all such persons should obtain from the' local census enumerator a personal schedule, so that passengers can have it tilled in and completed before and take it with them on the train or the boat to hand to the subemuuerator when it is demanded after midnight. \ The census office has arranged with the Railway Department to send special officers from the census office to enumerate those-travelling on the Main Trunk trains. Ail persons travelling by boat on that night will be required to hand in their schedules before leav-, ing the ship. In keeping with the privilege accorded those furnishing personal schedules these may be supplied under sealed cover, PECULIAR POINT RAISED. (By Telegraph—Press Association) ; WELLINGTON, tips day, A point raised , that; visitors at the Dunedin Exhibition will unduly raise the population of the South Island and affeCt representation of country districts. and also the number of representatives the North Island is entitled to when the electoral districts arc automatically revised, the Government Statistician does not hold out any hope that this can be remedied. In the British Empire (except Canada) the population is always counted in the district in which it is located when the census is taken. The United States, Canada, and some other countries had a system by which those temporarily present are excluded, and temporary absences included, but it is difficult to work, and not entirely accurate.