VANISHED STATISTICS.
Your contributor "Touchstone" refers to the sudden disappearance from the official Year Book of certain highly-important mortgagestatistics. The Labour leader has frequently protested against this, and the Government's action surely gives one to think. What right has the Reform or any other Government to interfere with the statistical picture of the Dominion? If the mortgage statistics published in previous years were inaccurate or' misleading, then the Government Statistiaai was at fault. His duty was to guide the readers of the Year Book by indicating that the mortgage totals must be accepted with reservations. There is no reason to think that the Statistician does not know his job; tha contrary is true. One is driven to the conclusion that the Government has in fact, from purely party motives, suppressed an inconvenient truth. And one wonders whether it may not be necessary, in the interests of tb® pebple, to place the Government Statistician in a position similar to that so fortunately occupied by the Auditor-General—out of reach of political control. COLD FIGURES.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 250, 22 October 1928, Page 6
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