THE SHEEP YEAR.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 13 November 1930, Page 25

THE SHEEP YEAR.

fHE METROPOLITAN SHOW, 1930 :* i ■ v .4

The Drop in Values.

t he DECREASED WOOL CHEQUE.

The share attributable to the decline of last season's wool rice In reducing New Zealand's exports from £56,244,750 in ygjgg In 1929 to £47,588,213 in 1930, illustrates how greatly prosperity of the Dominion is dependent upon the pros--tftty of the sheep-farmer. The decline in total export values ill product* between the two years was £8,656,537, and of git total the decline in wool values accounted for £7,766,848, « 89.7 per cent. The decline per bale in the price of export wool was 36.6 iiff cent., and the' quantity shipped receded by 134,535 bales, fate latSr decrease is due, however, to the fact that a condSfttble part of the season's clip had not been sold at the mi of the production year,

Sheep are the greatest value producers, for when their wool, ftafr the by-product* that they produce are taken Setter they are responsible for a total of about thirty millions f!93Q figures) against the twenty millions produced If ike cow. The following figures are interesting as a comparison, both fa rtfflwd to the increase in sheep products in the last 20 years ml tSe fall in values compared with 1929: WOOL EXPORTS. \9lO. 1929. 1900. 8,30f,410 15,923,157 8,156,309 i' Decrease .. £7,766,848 MEAT EXPORTS. 1910. 1929. 1930. £ £ £ Umb .. .. 1,878,800 • 6,925,831 6,884,717 Xottoa .. .. 1,255,349 1,949,919 2,042,301 Beef .. 630,141 813,550 583,750 - Perk .. .. 23,957 589,609 467,475 | others •• •• 86,041 229,692 -281,282 I , Preserved, etc. .. 146,553 198,323 143,277 Totals .. 4,020,841 10,706,924 10,402,802 Decrease .. £304,122. BY-PRODUCTS. "*|f nlriftß .. ' 24,742 300,197 201,298 Pdes .. .. 230,267 677,552 374,646 »t£l) 223,791 . $»■»« iW" (without ■ ( • ' |1 wool) # • • 0 517§462 1j473j253 1^336)524 & mßm -*+ •• 646,339 719,099 686,261 r ■ Hiifll 23,721 16,206 8,722 I .-VHNIBI* '■*• "■ 77 '^ 98 •••• ■ 688j098 779,651 * 1,743,726 4,338,708 3,720,617 1= Decrease .. £618,091