VICTORIAN LIVE STOCK RETURNS.
■r'Tlip 'Government'' Statist -has issu&d ir'fr'ei ' • "'•! inno'' the live stock in.Victoria in Match; ■ : 3,908,.5et.0ut in districtsVand-counties'; JTha totals are — i * , „ 424,648 Dairy Cows (milking and dry) 709,279 s J Other Cattle , 1,133,523 „ Sheep . 14.14Q.734 . p 'gs 211,002 - Pigs, havou decreased, from last "year's" . ' > numbers by 9450, and irt fact haie de-creased,every-year since '. 'when'« tli6y ■' • numbered d 50,870 But all other binds of stock na>e increased.; The. sheep, increased' ' • v,; ihy 1,209,294, and.. now ; reach the largest ■"/ * I number ever recorded m Victoria, exceeding •' the previous record in 1894, of 13,180,943 " ' FARMERS' MUTUAL INSURANCE,' ' RESULTS IN HAWKE'S BAY. ' NO LOSSES RATES REDUCED s "" -;The second annual'report' of the Hawke's : ■■' ■< Bay .-Farmers' Mutual 1' ire Insurance 'Association (says a Press ■ Association- ' message) states that.' policies' in "force on. " .-I | March 31 amounted in . • value :to £70,361; ..•' Of this: £9650- was re-insured; leaving! a'not'■ liability ,of. £6071. The cost .of . working-had ;v 'Veen..2s. ,9d. per. £100. -No loss -wassus- ' taiuedv duringr the.' year.. The tariff rates 5 ' ■■■• from April 1 had boon reduced ss.per £100 on- ■ ■ ( first-class risks up to £1000; over tnafc amount' *:■' ' ; insurers were being, charged the ruling lb- - suranco'rates. ■ ' • • . • ■■■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 183, 28 April 1908, Page 2
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193VICTORIAN LIVE STOCK RETURNS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 183, 28 April 1908, Page 2
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