Statistics are full of pitfalls for the unwary, and the practised officer Jcnows the care that must be exercised if the figures are not to he misinterpreted. The Statistical Conference, attended by Mr Malcolm Fraser, in Adelaide, recently discovered that the causes of error were being multiplied by lack of uniformity in the computation methods of the various Australian States. For example, some States had been in the habit of compiling birth and death statistics so as to include in the cities the deaths of country people in city hospitals and the children born to country mothers in city maternity hospitals. Hobart had excluded such deaths and births, and this made a considerable difference in the results show'll. The conference decided that all States should follow the Tasmanian system.
SILK MAROCAIN FROCKS; direct from the leading English and French houses; in black, navy, nigger, grey, fawn— C. C. Ward Ltd. Price from 99/TRICOLINE UNDERSKIRTS; in all the wanted summer shades —C. C. Wai’d Ltd. Price from 13/6
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 October 1924, Page 2
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