EMPIRE STATISTICS.
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January 20. 1.25 p.m.) .IjONDON, January 19-
Tho imperial Statistical Conference which holds its first sitting at tho Board of Trade on January 20, is the outcome of the recommendations in the; report of the Royal Dominions Commission of 1917. that a conference of statisticians of tho Empire should bo called as soon as practicable after the war in order to consider tho question of improving statistical returns, especially with a view to securing a greater degree of comparability and uniformity. and by consider the question of the formation of an Imperial Statistics Office to prepare statistics relating to the whole of the British Empire. Tho Imperial IVar Conference approved of these recommendations, and laid down that an Inter-Imperial Board of Control should supervise the proposed statistical office. Amongst the oversea delegates attending the conference is Air Malcolm Fraser, of New Zealand.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19850, 20 January 1920, Page 6
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