THE NEXT CENSUS
« . QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE. Questions regarding. the Census to be taken in October next ™re asked in the House last night by Mr. J. C. Thomson. He asked whether the Consue was being taken for military purposes or for electoral purposes: If for electoral purposes, then he asked the Minister to draw tho attention of the 'Electoral Boundaries Commissioners to the fact that many districts had lost population by tho absence of large numbers of men on active service. The Hon. G. W. Russell (Minister of Internal Affairs) said that tho Census to be taken on October 15 would bo the ordinary Census. There would bo nothing in the Consus papers raising the question of military service in any way whatever. With regard to tho other point raised, tho attention of tho Government had already been directed to it. Fiill information was being obtained for electoral purposes of tho number of men. from tho. different electorates who were out of the Dominion. Eoturns wonld be prepared if possible, and handed to the Boundaries Commissioners, setting forth the number of soldiers, nurses, and other persona absent from every electorate on activo sorvico or on other military work-
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2838, 1 August 1916, Page 4
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199THE NEXT CENSUS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2838, 1 August 1916, Page 4
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