CAN STATISTICS LIE?
A DISCREPANCY. NEW ZEALAND AND NEW SOUTH WALES DIFFER.,. . BY TBLEGHAFH—PRESS ASSOOIAMON-COPTRIGHT, Sydney, November 21. Tho Intelligence Department, dealing with a discrepancy between its figures and those published in'New.Zealand with reforenco to the movement of population Dptncen tho two countries, points out that there is not likely to bo any agreement until a common basis of calculation has been adopted. At the same timo it is confident as' to the correctness of its own figures. It sap that many people doubtless pass through' New Zealand, and returri to Australia by other routes. Tho Department, howovor, has been assured that Now Zealand land-owners are selling out in considerable numbers, and coming to Now South Wales in search of land.' Many of them visit the Department, and, whatever tho causo, tho fact is vouched'for by the Department.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 7
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138CAN STATISTICS LIE? Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 7
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