Mendicants and nomads with no fixed place of abode have '.lways been a source of worry to the census taking authorities. It is naturally the aim during a national counting of heads to record every single one, and tfie man who sleeps under a tree or bridge is from one point of view a nuisance. Strenuous efforts are to be made by the Australian Census Bureau during the taking of the census this year to count in all mendicants and wanderers who work, states the Melbouriie Age. On census night the police all over Australia will be on the look out for open air sleepers. Parks and gardens will be combed, and the occupants recorded on the census cards. Out in the back country where rabbit trappers and others move from place to place, and “fold their tents like the; Arabs,” special precautions have been taken 'to secure records. When the counting of cards takes place few people, if any, will been missed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1921, Page 5
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