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Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 32

Lambing percentages throughout the Poverty Bay district, it is stated, are not so good as usual (says the Herald). This is attributed to the dry weather experienced some months ago, and will doubtless apply to other districts also affected by the dryseason. Some farmers declare that the lambing shows a reduction of os much as 15 per cent. Advice from the hill country, where the rain was more plentiful, discloses that lambing records are up to the usual standard. At the monthly meeting of the Southland Acclimatisation Society on the 21st inst. it was decided that the remaining 600,000 fry be distributed as follows Upper Waikiwi (Myross Bash), 25,000; tipper Waihopai (Kennington), 25,000; Upper Makarewa, 25,000; Lora, 50,000; Tstapin, 50,000; Dunsdale, 30,000; Waimatuku, 25,000; Orawia, 50,000; Otamita, 50,000; Waixnumu, 20,000; Oreti, 125,000; Aparima, 125,000;—total, 600,000. Of rabbits and hares 613,737 carcases, valued at £17,516, were exported from the Dominion in August of the present year, as compared with 356,967 carcases, valued at £8065, exported in August of last year (says the New Zealand Times). In the first eight months of this year 1,290,610 carcases, valued at £35,425, were exported, as against 674,103, valued at £20,091, in the first eight months of 1914.