NUMBERING THE PEOPLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3124, 21 January 1911, Page 9

NUMBERING THE PEOPLE.

PREPARATIONS FOR APRIL CENSUS.

Preliminary work for the census in April next is in hand, and it is expected that the appointment of the census enumerators will be announced within the next week or so.

The enumerators will control the distribution and collection of the householders’ schedules, which distribution will be done by sun-enumerators. About 5G census enumerators will be required, and approximately 1000 .sub-enumera-tors. The .sub-enumerators will be selected for their knowledge of the districts which tliev will have to work. _ Some will he mounted men, others will be cyclists, and the balance will go on foot. The work of collecting the schedules in the four centres will be pushed through as speedily as nossible on account of the continual movement of the population, and, in Wellington alone, some fifty or sixty collectors will be at work. Householders can 'assist by not only having their schedules filled in when they arc called for, but (in cases where they are moving) making arrangements wherein’ schedules can bo picked up without trouble. _lt is intended to make the forthcoming census as complelte and perfect as it is possible to get it. The electoral boundaries are to be readjusted on the result in time for the general election. In addition to the general census it is proposed to take the agricultural statistics at the same time. This is a reversion to the system which obtained previous to 1395.