LAMB PERCENTAGES

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIV, Issue 6581, 31 October 1939, Page 2

LAMB PERCENTAGES

FIFTEEN PER CENT DROP EXPECTED The Position on Banks Peninsula A lamb buyei on Banks Peninsula estimates that there will be a fifteen per cent drop o\ iambs this season in the Akaroa, Wairewa and Mt. Herbert County districts. He states that usually about 240,000 fat lambs go off the Peninsula each season. The dry autumn conditions and the effect of the snowstorm and loss of ewes, he considers, will affect this total by something 'ike 36,000 lambs. From information he has received from sheepfarmers he considers these figures will be iairly accurate. The percentages ve.y in the various districts.

I:i Pigeon Bay, he says the percentages of lambs are 30 per cent lower

than usual

Snowstorm Losses

Sneaking of the loss of ewes during the July snowstorm arid since he computes these losses at 25,000 ewes. Besides the losses during the snowstorm he says-there has been a heavy mortality of ewes , during the lambing season through the late spring growth and weak condition of the ewes.

Dr I. E. Coop, a graduate of Canterbury University Collegt, who recently returned to New Zealand after carrying out advanced study in physical chemistry at Oxford and in biochemistry at Cambridge, has been appointed to the piant chemistry section of the Plant Research, Bureau, Palmerston North. Dr. Coop is a son of Mr E. W. Coop, Port Levy and a grandson of the late Mr W. Coop, one of the pioneer founders of Little River.