NEW ZEALAND’S SHEEP
POPULATION. 1,000,000 INCREASE IN THREE YEARS. WELLINGTON, July 20. “The collection of sheep returns this year reveals that the sheep population has increased to 33,083,318 from 31,751,660 in 1941, when the last statistical returns were compiled,’’ the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. B. Roberts) said to-day.
“Of this increase of more than 1,000,000, the greater proportion occurred in the North Island, where there were now 18,821,609 sheep, compared with 17,862,330 in 1941. The South Island total is now 14,261,709, compared with 13,889,330 in 1941.
Interim figures for the various sheep districts at April 30, 1944, are as follows, the actual figures for April 30, 1941, being shown in parenthesis for comparative purposes : Auckland, 4,804,410 (4,179,994); Gisborne-Hawkes Bay, 7,212,688 (7,051,024); Wellington, West Coast, 6,804,511 (6,631,312); Marlborough-Nelson, 1,370,747 (1,531,386); Canterbury-Kaikouraf 5,662,696 (5,412,360); Otago-Southland, 7,228 266 (6,945,584).
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 57, 24 July 1944, Page 2
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