CROP STATISTICS.
TO BE COLLECTED BY POST. Statistics regarding the agricultural and pastoral industries which have not been collected for threo years, will be compiled this year. Jlr. Craigie, M.r. for Tiinaru, has. been informed by the Minister for Agriculture that instructions will be given to officers of tho Department immediately to prepare . the necessary schedules. The census will be takeii through tho agency of the pest, the schedule.? being delivered to farmers, shf.jp farmers, and settlers throughout tho Dominion by post, and returned by them to the Department. Provision will bo mado in the" schedules for the statement of fhe acreage H>wn in cereals, grass, roots, otc. They will be issued next month, and aro to he returned in November. Tho taking of the census by means of tho post will effect a saving of over .£OOOO, the expenditure, required when the schedules were delivered aud collected by enumerators.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1242, 26 September 1911, Page 8
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150CROP STATISTICS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1242, 26 September 1911, Page 8
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