It is very doubtful if the census enumerators will be in a position to furnish accurate returns of the population on the diggings.. The arrangements for ascertaining the number of miners [appear to have been the most incomplete and insufficient character—so much so, indeed, as to make the census, as regards the population oh the diggings, practically valueless. For the. whole of the scattered diggings on the Grey district only one sub-enumerator was appointed, and although he may have, arid doubtless has used all' due diligence, it is simply impossible that, hp.codd* have visited - all ,the . diggings. . Even -on the Nelson side of the boundary, where several sub-enumerators [were' 1 appointed,'ipiniSsions have been * inade. ■; i JL correspondent informs us that,in the immediate.; -vicinity of the bid tbwhshipj' NeisoA theirs 4 were thfrty or forty > iiaeif’ at work, not a single .printed wasj distributed. —Grey River, Argue, 7th January, .
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 56, 27 January 1868, Page 22
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148Untitled Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 56, 27 January 1868, Page 22
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