EMPIRE STATISTICS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3442, 2 March 1920, Page 26

EMPIRE STATISTICS.

i (By Cable.) LONDON, February 22. The Statistical Conference will conclude on February 25. A feature of the conference has been its remarkable unanimity, notwithstanding the diversity of conditions and interests represented. Generally speaking, the South African statistical system readily adapted itself to the decisions of the conference. It 's anticipated that the new Imperial Statistical Bureau will be a co-ordinating medium more complete than any previously conceived. February 24. At a farewell dinner to the oversea delegates to the Imperial Statistical Conference a letter from Colonel Amery, Colonial Under-secretary, was redd. In it he emphasised the necessity for the fullest possible statistics in regard to trade, agriculture, mining, finance, population, the cost of living, labour, and migration, and their proper co-ordination, in order to develop and utilise the resources of the Empire to the fullest extent. He was sure the deliberations of the conference had greatly contributed to the attainment of that end, which he would do everything in his power to further.