THE CENSUS.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 243, 2 September 1913, Page 3

THE CENSUS.

hE AWAMUTU’S PROGRESS. LA POPULATION, 1077. i/i j ' SEVEN YEARS’ INCREASE , 702. ' meeting of the Council of ' the Te Awamutu Chamber of }; : Commerce held in the WAIPA /L Post office last nignt Mr S. J. Fortescue reported having taken, ih compliance with the Chamber’s instructions, a census of the population within the boundaries of the Te Awamutu Town District. He and Mr O. P. Owen had . called at every house, and were pleased to report that in every instance they had been well re- : ; ceived, and had met with a unanimous desire to see the constitution , of Borough assured. A detailed statement showing

the.various householders’ namqs in each street, and giving the ■iipkfDber of residents therein, was submitted/ This list was carefully checked by members of the Council, and the figures stated therein verified. The total number of residents within-the town boundaries is 1077, seven of whom were absent from Te Awamutu at the time of taking the census. Each of the census enumerators made a statutory declaration in connection with the returns submitted and the figures throughout were checked by the council. At the private'boarding houses the number of residents was stated to be far below the average whilst the hotels were far short complement* of an average been r say a month, of the HBHouse population the out in the report been considerably in-

flowing table showing :urns of Te Awamutu is of the great progress ing the past five years : 30, 1906 - 379 , 30, 1911 - 645 Ist 29, .1913 - 1077 ‘