IMPERIAL TRADE STATISTICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17902, 6 April 1920, Page 5

IMPERIAL TRADE STATISTICS

.. ... SUGGESTED CENTRAL ORGANISATION. - . (Fbom Oob Own Coerespondhst.) LONDON, January 28. At the meeting l of the Imperial Statistical Conference, held on Monday morning, Dr Bowlcy, professor of statistics to London University, gave his views on statistical uniformity throughout the Empire and its practical advantages in regard to trade developments. He suggested tho earlier publication of information by tPiogra.m or otiher■vvise, and the unification of statistical data and phraseology, and ho laid omphasis on the desirableness of closo approximation in the methods of presenting and compiling information about commerce from abroad. In tho discussion which followed representatives of India and tho dominions took part. Mr M. Frasar, from Now Zealand, arrived this week. Matters djsoussed after tho programme of tho conference had been settled included the improvement of trade, statistics, and the advantage of Empire, generally aid politically, of accurate and complete data, specially in regard to tho control of raw materials and of food production in the Empire, and to this and of the establishment in London of a central organisation to disseminate and arrange for the collection of all requisite material. The working out of the details nrisim from the decisions of the conference is entrusted to a General Purposes Committee.