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SEASON’S LAMBING. Wellington, Dec. 27. According to the completed estimates of the seasons’ lambing by stock inspectors in the various districts, the average percentages are slightly lower than usual, but against this this was an increase of 203,000 breeding ewes, the total being 13,948,252, the highest on record. The estimated number of lambs for the Dominion is 11,194,699 and the average 84.57 per cent., the latter being a little below that of the last four years, but constituting another record as to number. In the North Island 7,500,000 ewes produced 84.35 per cent, of lambs, the lowest average in five years. In the South Island 6,445,052 ewes produced 5,465,361 lambs, the highest on record, and the average of 84.79 per cent, is quite equal to the average of the preceding four years.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 12, 28 December 1926, Page 7
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