THE CENSUS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3562, 23 September 1916, Page 5

THE CENSUS.

NATIONAL STOCKTAKING NEXT

WEEK

Preparations are now being; made for tho quinquennial census, which will bo taken at midnight on Sunday, October 15. The Government >Si;ifcisticum (Mr Malcolm Fraser) hat, his hands very full at the present time, ouing to tho rush of work in eonnettion with tho formation of the TCxpeditionary Force Reserve, and he will nor. have completed thf- rolls oi' .Reservists) before tho dato fixed for the census. But the ■preliminary work has profX-oclod, . and tho census forms arc. now nv.dy i'or "distribution to the suboxmiu orators, whose duty it will, be to s(^> thai; ouo form reaches every occupied house in. the Dominion before tho Lsth day of next month.

The census won If: have boon taken in April of this .year under normal conditions, but it was postponed by tho Government owing to tho war. Tlie original intc-imou sv;u; to hold tho work over until tho conclusion of peace but later information showed that the movements, of population since I^ll had been .important, and tho Ministry decided that tho eon-sus should be takon in the present- mouth. The estimates already made have shown that a very big increase-of population in Auckland, involving adtlitional I'arliaiientary representation, will be a feature of the census returns.