CENSUS NEXT SUNDAY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2897, 9 October 1916, Page 6

CENSUS NEXT SUNDAY

TAKING STOCK OF DOMINION'S POPULATION. The cciisus of tho Dominion is to fcft taken at midnight on Sunday next, and the distribution of the householders schedules and-tho. other forms, is to o<3 "begun in the City, district _ to-dav. Postal officers aro iihdertaking this work, and it is expected -that.-they will have completed their round of the City and suburbs before tho end of tho week; Each officer lias a clearly fined.area in .which. to operate, and it is his duty to seo that forms are left! at" every inhabited liouse. , The householder's schedule is tli<i form that concerns most people. It is to be filled up by the occupier or per-i son in charge of the dwelling, with par-*, ticulars respecting all the persons wh<v slept or abode there on the night ofl Sunday, October 15, together with thosri travelling or out at work that night (and not included in any other schedule). and who return to the dwell-, ing on Monday, October 15. If thai house is occupied by different families! in separate stories or apartments, eacH story or apartment is to be treated as a sppa.ra.t-n schedule.

Tito collection of the forms will no begun on Monday, October 16, and will be completed as quicklv 'as possible. Persons who aTe in doubt about nny point may consult the collector, but the instructions orbited upon the forms are clear and definite, and fen' difficulties should arise.