STATISTICAL CONFERENCE.
AN IMPORTANT MEETING, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Jan. 19. The Imperial Statistical Conference, which holds its first sitting at f he Board of Trade on January 20, is the outcome of the recommendations of the report of the Royal Dominions Commission (1917) that a conference of the statisticians of the Empire should be called as soon as practicable after the war in order to consider the question of improving the statistical returns, especially with the view of securing greater comparability and uniformity, and to consider the question of the formation of an Imperial Statistical Office to prepare statistics relating to the whole British Empire. The Imperial War Conference approved these recommendations and laid down that an inter-imperial board of control should supervise the proposed statistical office.
' Oversea delegates attending the conference include Mr. Malcolm Fraser, New Zealand Government Statistician.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1920, Page 6
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