COMPLETING THE CENSUS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1117, 3 May 1911, Page 5

COMPLETING THE CENSUS.

ORDER OUT OF CHAOS. In a large, spacious room in tho top story Of (lie Wairarapa Farnifrs , Cooperative- Association building, tho work of completing the census returns has bogun. 'J he room, by tho way, is not One into which the carnal individual would care to drop for a word with a friend employed there. It is reached per medium of several staircases. One feels, on reachins the lop step, that the census officials are well away from interruption. Hero nre now beginning lo arrive, iu bundles of varying size, census papers from all over New Zealand. There papers were once sent out: by the chief census officor, and they passed through the chief onq. ■iterators, lo the sub-euumeralors, and from them to tho outermost individuals in the Dominion. Now they have come back again in the same methodical way, and through the same channels, and are delivering up their messages to the chief census officer.

The (nsit of compiling (he ?(nli?(ies is nil immense one, even for litlle New Zealand. At present only (iftron clerks are employed, but soon, when all liio pnpm arrive, the number will increase to seventy. Each census district has a bin of its own for its papers, which has necessitated tho erection of shelves round tho entire room, (special haste is required on this census occasion, because of (he necessity for hnnding on to the Representation Commission as early as possible thn Statistical information that will enable them to proceed with their work and define the electoral districts for the general election,