EMPIRE STATISTICS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 121, 16 February 1920, Page 7

EMPIRE STATISTICS

WORK OF CONFERENCE PRAISED. ! (Rec. February 15, 5,.'. irj.m.) London, February 11. Presiding at a Government luncheon to tho delegates attending the Imperial i Statistical. Conference. Sir Auckland Geddes declared that the Government re- , garded the conference as most important, because the Cabinet presently had to > make decisions affecting the destiny. of every part of the Empire in almost complete ignorance of the real position. The Government wanted to see the statistical i liinchinerv of the Empire placet! on a. , satisfactory 'basis, thus enabling it to '! supply information at present lacking. The Home Secretary presided at a Gov- i eminent dinner lo the delegates. _ Tho company inclivled the High Commission- , ers for New Zealand and South Africa. The chairman dwelt on the necessity of the establishment of a central bureau for statistical information, which would bo a. clearing house for the Empire. Tho Government would wavmlv welcome sucli a jnorement. The conference had dono great work, and he was satisfied that an. international statistical bureau under the League of Nations would duly arrive.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.