§ MR. H. P. PEASE (Darlington)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will consider the advisability of increasing the remuneration granted to the registrars and enumerators for
† See The Parliamentary Debates [Fourth Series], Vol. lxxxii., page 1248.243 performing the work of taking the Census, seeing that Dr. Ogle, chief statistician, in his evidence before the Treasury Committee (Census, 1891), stated that the pay of the enumerators was not more than that of a labourer, and seeing that the present scale of remuneration was fixed thirty years ago, when the general rate of wages was at least 25 per cent. lower than that ruling at present.
§ MR. HANBURYThe question of the proper payment to be made for taking the next census is being fully considered.