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THE Economics and Statistics Division of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has appointed Mr. C. P. G. J. Smit to be regional representative for statistics in Asia and the Far East. Mr. Smit, who has been with the Netherlands Government for twenty-one years, was formerly deputy director-general of statistics at the Central Office of Statistics, The Hague, and was responsible for all statistical work done in that Office, including work with agricultural statistics. He has also acted as chairman of the Standing Advisory Committee on Statistics of the Food and Agriculture Organisation since that Committee was set up in 1946. In his new appointment Mr. Smit will work at the Organisation's Central Office of Statistics in Bangkok, and there he will work with Governments of the region, assisting them on statistics problems, especially with regard to the 1950 world census of agriculture. He will also be responsible for some of the statistical work needed for the International Rice Commission.
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Food and Agriculture Organisation : Statistics Officer in the Far East. Nature 164, 1076 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641076c0
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