New Zealand Gazette – 1936 – No. 28

Page 707

✨ Census Regulations



APRIL 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 707

(4) Name of every person for whom a personal schedule is attached.
(b) Personal schedule:—
(1) Full name:
(2) Relationship to head of household:
(3) Sex:
(4) Age:
(5) Conjugal condition:
(6) Birthplace:
(7) Duration of residence in the Cook Islands:
(8) Nationality:
(9) Racial origin of self, of father, and of mother:
(10) Occupation or profession:
(11) Religious profession:
(12) Usual place of residence.

  1. Every officer appointed for the purpose is hereby authorized to ask such questions and conduct such inquiries as are necessary to obtain the particulars set out in clause 8 of these regulations and to satisfy himself that any covering schedule or personal schedule is correctly filled up.

  2. The census of Natives other than those Natives who are described in clause 6 of these regulations shall be taken and recorded in sub-enumeration books by officers appointed for that purpose, who are hereby authorized to ask such questions and conduct such inquiries as are necessary to obtain the particulars set out in clause 11 of these regulations.

  3. The particulars which shall be obtained from Natives other than those Natives who are described in clause 6 of these regulations shall be as follows:—
    (1) Full name:
    (2) Sex:
    (3) Age:
    (4) Racial origin:
    (5) Birthplace:
    (6) Name of island and village or district therein where living at the census:
    (7) Name of usual place of residence:
    (8) Occupation:
    (9) Religion:
    (10) Ability to read or write in—
    (a) Maori.
    (b) English.

  4. Any person who neglects or refuses to furnish any census schedule as aforesaid or to answer any questions lawfully put to him for the purpose of the census, or who knowingly makes any statement or gives any answer untrue in any material particular required by these regulations, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of £50.

  5. Any person who without lawful authority destroys, defaces, or mutilates a census schedule or other census document of record shall be liable to a fine of £50.

  6. Any officer appointed to any duty in connection with the census or any other person who divulges or makes use of any information obtained pursuant to these regulations, except as may be required by the preparation of statistics from the data ascertained at the census, shall be liable to a fine of £50.

  7. Any person who hinders or obstructs any officer in pursuance of his duty under these regulations shall be liable to a fine of £10.

  8. The Government Statistician appointed under the Census and Statistics Act, 1926, and a Resident Commissioner appointed under the Cook Islands Act, 1915, may prepare from particulars ascertained at the census such statistics as may be required for their respective purposes and may publish such statistics with any comments thereon which are deemed necessary or advisable.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.



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🌏 Regulations under the Cook Islands Act, 1915 (continued from previous page)

🌏 External Affairs & Territories
1 April 1936
Cook Islands, Census, Regulations, 1936
  • C. A. Jeffery, Clerk of the Executive Council