424:, noted that Wood's integrity had never been questioned. During Wood's 16 years as chair, the membership of the Consumers' Institute had gone from 1772 in the first year to 129,000, which Wood said was testament to "the impartial and incorruptible approach of the council to its work". Wood was intimately involved in the establishment of a complaints advisory service in 1973, which quickly grew to hear 12,648 complaints the following year and obtained redress in 98.8 per cent of cases deemed to warrant it.
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351:(later the Department of Statistics and now Statistics New Zealand), in 1921, and rose to become chief compiler in 1937. Between 1938 and 1945, he was seconded to the
296:(13 July 1900 â 18 December 1978) was a New Zealand economist and statistician. He served as government statistician in Palestine from 1938 to 1945, New Zealand
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774:A History of Statistics in New Zealand
636:Births, deaths & marriages online
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306:United Nations Statistical Commission
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