FLOCKS OF THE DOMINION
A DEPARTMENTAL RETURN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE RECORDED. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 21. An interim return compiled by the Department of Agriculture shows that on April 30 last there were. 28,550,770 sheep in the Dominion, compared with 27,755,900 on the corresponding day of last year. Despite this increase of 794,804, the latest return is still below the figures for the four years preceding 1 933 - ' , XT. ' An analysis of the returns for the past few years indicates that the heavy slaughtering of flocks during the depression has been arrested. Trends of this type are typical of flock owners being forced into a realisation on mature stock and lambs in ah attempt to find liquid cash.' Although there is a decrease of 22,916 in the sheep in the Marlborough-Nelson-Westland .district, the greatest increase in number took place in the South Island, where the sheep increased by 536,393 to 13,338,330. The largest individual increase for a district was in the Canterbury-Kaikoura area, the sheep there increasing by 415,632 to 5,607,015. In the North Island the increase amounted to 258,411, and of that number 162,247 were represented by extra sheep in the Wellington-West Coast district. According to the latest return, there are now 5,802,189 sheep in this district.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22295, 22 June 1934, Page 10
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