HUGE SHEEP LOSSES
AUSTRALIAN FIGURES SYDNEY, Oct. 4. Huge sheep losses through the drought :-.n 1944 and 1945 are revealed in statistics issued to-day by the Commonwealth Statistician. ' Since the beginning of 1942, when the number of sheep reached a maximum of 125,000,000, there has been an animal decrease which, over the whole period, amounted to 29,000.000, or 2.» per cent. At the end of March this vear, before the recent disastrous droughts, the figure of 96,400,000 was the lowest recorded for Australia since 1924. From almost 5,000,000 in March, 1943, the number of dairy cattle decreased to 4,607,000.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 304, 5 October 1946, Page 5
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