DOMINION’S SHEEP
Decrease Shown Last Year
Tables published in the annual sheep returns presented to Parliament yesterday show that on April 30 last there were 14,951,029 sheep in the North Island, as against 14,946,987 on the corresponding day of the previous year. In the South Island there were 12,801,937 sheep, as against 13,744,801 on April 30, 1932. The South Island figures therefore show a decrease of 942,864, and the North Island figures an increase of This makes the Dominion total at the end of April 27,755.966 sheep, as against 28,691,788, a decrease of 935,822. ’
Sheepowners in the Dominion totalled 30,063, as against 34,449 twelve months previously. The number of owners and sheep in the various districts as at April 30 were as follow :— Auckland. 5243 owners (2,840,259 sheep); Poverty Bay-llawke's Bav, 3759 (6.473,828); Wellington-West Coast, 5054 (5,639,942) ; Marlborough-Nelson-Westland, 2546 (1,396,506) ; Canterbury-Kaikoura, 6085 (5,191,353) ; Otago, 7387 (6,214,048).
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 8
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146DOMINION’S SHEEP Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 8
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