AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
INFORMATION BY POST
jHY TKI.VOT! AVIT. rUKSS association. J Wellington. Yesterday.
Statistics regarding the agricultural and pastoral industries, which have not been collected for three years, will bo compiled this year. The member for Timaru (Mr Craigie) has persistently urged upon the Government the desirability and the. importance of preparing this information. He has now been informed by the Minister for Agriculture that instructions will be given to officers of the Department immediately to prepare the necessary schedules. The census will be taker, through the agency of the post, and schedules being delivered to farmers, sheep farmers, and settlers throughout the Dominion by post and returned by them to the department. Provision will he made in the schedules for the statement of the. acreage sown in cereals, grass, roots, etc. They will he issued, and are to he reunned next month. The use of the post will ell'ee.t a saving of over £SOO.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 398, 23 September 1911, Page 5
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155AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 398, 23 September 1911, Page 5
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