According to the census taken last year in conjunction with the population census, New Zealand has 4,019,076 head of poultry, of which more than half are in the North Island. The figures show that, there arc 3,448.516 fowls, 377,791 ducks, 86,102 turkeys and 66,667 geese. There are 166,354 households keeping poultry, and the average flock of birds is 23.3.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 298, 13 September 1937, Page 10
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