TAKING THE CENSUS.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 128, 15 April 1926, Page 8

TAKING THE CENSUS.

OFFICIAL INQUISITION. f V Formidable-looking- Papers. It is only a week now, April 20, before householders/and others will be required to fill in formidable looking- census papers, crammed full of questions and instructions as to how to answer them. Papers will be delivered to every dwelling a few days before hand, so that householders will have time to digest their contents, to count their chickens and incidentally to determine their sex, and if you have a cow you will have time to calculate how much butter you have churned during the past year. Each dwelling- occupied at the time, be it a camping shack, a tent, or a dilapidated bush hut, will be served with at least one paper; some households will receive at least four differ-4jj ent kinds and some perhaps five. The one paper that must go to every j dwelling- is the “ Householders’ Dwelling Schedule ” on which the head of the establishment must enter in the spaces provided, the number of adults, children, breadwinners, visitors, absentees, particulars of the dwelling and numbers of poultry and their sex. In cases where the householder liveswith, other close relatives (other than merely visiting relatives), he, or she,, also receives another form, called the “ Householders’ Family Schedule.” On- . this the questions are more personal, % ! A third form that some householders must receive (boardinghouses and 1 hotels will receive a host of them) is. the “ Personal Schedule.” Each person not a close relative of thehouseholder, or a relation who is not usually resident there must receivethis form which includes the questions asked in the family schedule. In connection with the census, agricultural and pastoral statistics are . also taken. For the counties the po- ( lice do the work. For the boroughs, j each person with a cow, or a horse, or I a pig, or those with over an acre of land, will be delivered by the subenumerators an “ Occupiers’ Schedule,” so that all the one cow farmers within the boroughs will receive one of these, in order to add his Daisy or Strawberry to the total cow population of the Dominion. In addition the amount of butter made during the past year must be ‘ stated (some of the pet cow owners will be scratching their heads). For the larger areas the yields of potatoes, onions and i other crops must be given. ( A fifth paper which very few will receive is one for giving- details of regular meeting- places for religious denominations, houses, chußehes and! halls. 1