THE GRAIN STATISTICS
CANTERBURY PROTEST. ' : The estimates of the. grain .-''yield for the coming season, ; issued-" by-the Government, were, attacked by Mr G. Sheat at a meeting of the Canterbury executive of. the Farmers' Union. He stated that he had found only one farmer who had sent in.an estimate-of-his .grain yield, and he. hinted that the policy of (retrenchment had led the Government to scamp "the- job. The estimate for Canterbury, he said, must bo discounted by 831 per cent., and then it would be a-bou't right. , The statistics should not bo published ,at all if they., were not- property compiled. ",as , they would be misleading to grain-buvers and inimical to the best interests of the Dominion., -'..-• -" In .tho dis-oufsion which" followed it was stated that, although no- farmers had been asked- to send. in written estimates, the stock, inspectors had riiado inquiries in some districts 'and liad learned tho "acreage sown,-but this' was no index .of ~the yield. . ..".' It was resolved.that the grain statistics were "unsatisfactory, unreliable and misleading, and would be . better left undone .than collected iri the "haphazard manner at. present in vogue." ..
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7027, 15 January 1910, Page 3
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