BRITISH CENSUS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1931, Page 6

BRITISH CENSUS

STRAN GE FE AT UR KS. t t) uiLed Uress Association —By Electric Tolegi apti.— Copy rignt.j LONDON, April 27. There were strange scenes in London at midnight and in the* e ai 'ly morning when the census forms wore computed at the hospitals, at the police stations, and on the Thames Unman... ment. ‘■Census babies," those horn just b - lore midnight, were included. One ( lain May, got in by htteen seconds, with six other babies born between eleven and midnight. The police, who are responsiblentering the particulars of the vagrants, made an intensive hunt through tiie streets and the embalmment in driving rain. More than one hundred were questioned in the crypt of St. Martin’s, where a red lamp burns throughout the night, welcoming the homeless. Four persons who were rescued from a blazing house in Brighton owe t;ieir lives to their neignliours staying up till midnight to complete tin* census pa pens. Tile Prince of Wales. Pr ' •/.’, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Reaver brook are among the celebrities not included in the census. King Alfonso, Prince Axel ol Denmark, Mr Douglas Fairbanks, and Zara Agha, the world s oldest man, were given forms.