OVER 28,000,000 SHEEP

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 7

OVER 28,000,000 SHEEP

New Zealand’s Flocks INCREASE IN NORTH ISLAND Au official interim return issued by the Department of Agriculture shows that the approximate number of sheep in New Zealand at April 30 last was 28,967,247, an increase of 318,209 on the final return for 1934. The interim returns for each pastoral district this year, with comparative final returns for 1934, are as follow: Vinal Interim

Dominion totals .. 28,0491)38 28.907,247 The increase for the North Island at April 30 last was 400,182. while the South Island shpwed a decrease of 81,973.

The highest total of New Zealand flocks during the past ten years was recorded in 1930, when the number was 30,841,287. In the past decade no fewer than 70.887,836 lamb carcases have been exported from the Dominion, the highest yearly total being 9,316,873, which were shipped last season, ended April 30.

District. Auckland GIsborne-H.B. Wellington-West Coast Return, 1934. 2.937.554 0,490 840 ->.830,188 Return, 1035. 3.107. (in 0.020.203 3.930.890 North Island totals 15.264 ,5S8 15.004.770 Marlborough - NelsonWestland Canterbury - Kaikoura 1.390.158 ->.<131.273 (1.300.019 1.383.201 5.557,971 0.301,245 South Island totals 13,381,450’ 13.302.477