This was the substitution of the machinery of the Post Office for the old system of special Enumerators.

Not only was the work performed more economically (the cost of collection was approximately £20,600 in 1911 and £17,500 in 1916), but the schedules were in much better condition than at any previous census, the proportion of incomplete entries being infinitesimal, and the necessity for queries being reduced to practically nil.

A point in connection with the 1916 census was the increase in the number of Enumerators' districts—ninety-five, as compared with fifty-nine in 1911—and it is probable that the consequential reduction in the average size of the districts made for increased efficiency.

and Libraries Appendix D Census of Industrial Manufacture* Appendix E Poultry and Bees The principal natural divisions in New Zealand are the North, South, and Stewart Islands.

(excluding Māori and residents of Cook and other Pacific islands).

of those who made answer to the inquiry at the last census; non-Christian sects were 0.44 per cent.