BIG LAMB INCREASE
HIGH EAST COAST FIGURES AVERAGE RISE 8 PER CENT The e;ist coast counties, along with Cook and Waikohu, have participated in a particularly good lambing this year, and the average increase for Uawa, Waiapu and Matakaoa is 8 per cent greater than for last season. The three counties average 87.8 per cent, the highest figure being that of Uawa with 91.5 per cent, which •was .5 per cent better than tho Cook County figure. Over the whole live counties, Cook, Waikohu, Uawa, Waiapu and Matakaoa, the average lambing was in tho vicinity of 88 per cent, compared with 83 per cent last year, 76 per cent in 1930 and 80 per cent in 1929. The year 1930 was a verypoor one for lambing, and the Matakaoa average went down as low as 70 per cent-, and Waikohu's lower still to 67 per cent.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21328, 1 November 1932, Page 12
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